Punishment and welfare a history of penal strategies pdf

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Get BOOK. Punishment and Welfare. Punishment and Welfare explores the relation of punishment to politics, the historical formation and development of criminology,. Other historians have suggested that the triumph of eugenics in the s was predicated upon the abandonment of liberal and Christian assumptions about human malleability. Rosenblum demonstrates, however, that the turn to "criminal biology" was not a reaction against social reform, but rather an effort to rescue its legitimacy.

The Upper Limit explains how this unusual mix came about, examining how, beginning in the s, declining living standards for the poor have defined social and penal policy in the United States, making welfare more restrictive and punishment harsher.

In essence, the living standards of the lowest class of workers in a society determine the upper limit for the generosity of welfare and for the humanity of punishment in that society.