Readership: Criminologists and Socio-legal scholars; sociologists; psychologists; policy makers.
David A. Green, Assistant Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Prior to this he was Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford and Research Associate at the University of Oxford Centre of Criminology. David completed an MPhil in Criminology at the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology in 2001 and was then awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a PhD.
"Covers all bases" - David Wilson, Professor of Criminology, Centre of Applied Criminology, Birmingham City University, The Howard Journal, May 2010
"a most valuable and informative work which provides new insights and ways forward in the face of the destructive potentialities of penal populism." - Dennis Eady, Criminology and Criminal Justice
"this important, stimulating book has the potential to become a landmark contribution to the development of comparative penology." - John Pratt, Punishment & Society
1: When children kill children 2: Culture, politics in the media in Norway and England 3: Crime and punishment in Norway and England 4: The constraints and effects of political culture 5: The constraints of discourse 6: Media constraints and the formation of political opinions 7: Contextualizing tragedy 8: English penal policy climates and political culture 9: Political culture, legitimacy, and penal populism 10: Public opinion versus public judgment 11: Effecting penal climate change
