Abstract
Australia, like many western nations, has seen an unprecedented rise in the levels of imprisonment over recent decades. This paper discusses several factors that have flowed from this over-reliance on criminalisation and imprisonment as a tool of social policy.
Disciplines
Law
Date of this Version
January 2011
Recommended Citation
Chris Cunneen, "Fear: Crime and Punishment" (January 2011). University of New South Wales Faculty of Law Research Series 2011. Working Paper 10.
http://law.bepress.com/unswwps-flrps11/art10
Comments
This paper was published in Dialogue, (2010) vol 29 No 2, pp 44-54. This paper may also be referenced as [2011] UNSWLRS 10.