Introduction 1
Part Ⅰ The Intensification of Punishment 13
1 Lock 'em Up! 15
2 Trojan Horses: The Rise of Out-of-Court Justice 44
3 The New Welfare Sanction 62
4 Erecting the Boundaries of Exclusion 93
5 Whither the Punitive Turn? 114
Part Ⅱ Explaining Punitiveness 133
6 Defining Neoliberalism 139
7 Neoliberal Punishment 162
8 Constructing the Authoritarian Consensus 191
Conclusion: Towards Penal Dystopia? 204
Bibliography 213
Index 243