Reconceptualising the Moral Economy of Criminal Justice

Download or read book Reconceptualising the Moral Economy of Criminal Justice written by Philip Whitehead and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconceptualises the concept of moral economy in its relevance for, and application to, the criminal justice system in England and Wales. It advances the argument that criminal justice cannot be reduced to an instrumentally driven operation to achieve fiscal efficiencies or provide investment opportunities to the commercial sector.