Over the last fifteen years, the analytical field of punishment and society has witnessed an increase of research developing the connection between economic pro
The political economy of punishment suggests that the evolution of punitive systems should be connected to the transformations of capitalist economies: in this
What punishment theorists have termed "proportionality"--Where the response to crime is well-suited to the crime itself -- I frame as a problem of economic coor
The project of interpreting contemporary forms of punishment means exploring the social, political, economic, and historical conditions in the society in which