Source: (2005) Punishment & Society. 7(3): 303–322
This article examines the growth, influence and limits of penal populism in New
Zealand. In this country, it argues, there were four crucial factors associated with this:
disenchantment with the existing democratic process; the dynamics of crime and
insecurity in a period of considerable social change; the growth and influence of ‘victimization
groups’; the emergence of a new kind of penal expertise.
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