Punitivity

The criminological term punitivity comes from the Latin word punire and stands for the willingness and the desire to severely sanction deviations from the norm , and can be freely translated as punishment . Punitivity contrasts with improving, rehabilitating or reconciling responses to delinquency .

In the criminological literature, there has been a significant increase in punitivity since the early 1990s - particularly in the USA and Great Britain .

literature

• Helga Cremer-Schäfer and Heinz Steinert : Punishment and repression. On the critique of populist criminology , 2nd revised edition, Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2004, ISBN 978-3-89691-680-8 .
• David W. Garland : Culture of Control. Combating crime and the social order of the present , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38585-3 .
• Alice Goffman : On the run. The criminalization of the poor in America , Kunstmann, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-95614-045-7 .
• Fabian Kessl : Punitivity in social work - from normalizing to control society . In: Dollinger B., Schmidt-Semisch H. (eds) Just Exclusion? VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2011. doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-531-94083-0_5 .
• Rüdiger Lautmann , Daniela Klimke and Fritz Sack (Eds.): Punitivity . Eighth supplement to the Kriminologische Journal, Juventa, Weinheim 2004, ISBN 3-7799-0987-1 .
• Loïc Wacquant : Misery behind bars , UVK, Konstanz 2000, ISBN 3-87940-715-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Heinz , New Straflust der Strafjustiz - Reality or Myth? . In: Neue Kriminalpolitik , Volume 23, Issue 1/2011, pp. 14-27 ( online , accessed on May 20, 2018).