Constructing the New Political Criminology: Power, Authority, and the Post-Liberal State

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to make a case for a new political criminology—that is, to argue that a meaningful and coherent intellectual enterprise is developing across disciplinary lines. This new political criminology is distinctive in three ways:• It is criminology in that it is rooted in conceptions of, and concerns about, the ramifications of street crime.• It is political in that its focus is on the way crime control strategies both reflect and influence the distribution of power within the polity.• It is new in that it is influenced by postmodern understandings of, and disillusionment with, the liberal state.

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