Penal populism in New Zealand and its future (Symposium: Globalized Penal Populism and its Countermeasures)

  • Pratt John
    Institute of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington

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  • ニュージーランドの厳罰的ポピュリズムとその影響について (課題研究 グローバル化する厳罰化ポピュリズムとその対策)
  • Penal populism in New Zealand and its future: is penal populism inevitable?
  • 厳罰的ポピュリズムは回避不可能であるか?
  • is penal populism inevitable?

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This article examines the effects of penal populism in New Zealand and explains why that country had been so vulnerable to its influences. These include its system of government, disenchantment with the existing political process, lack of trust in expert knowledge, the power of the victims' movement and the deregulation of the local media. There is, however, no inevitability to penal populism, as events in Canada illustrate. And even in those societies where it does become influential, there are limits to this. As is currently happening in New Zealand, when levels of imprisonment begin to impact on the provision of other public services, then penal populism begins to lose its legitimacy and its power and influence declines.

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