Abstract
Penal populism is often labeled as a process whereby politicians devise punitive penal policies, which are adjudged to be “popular” within the general public, and are designed to mobilize votes rather than improve the crime and justice situation. A “tough on crime” policy stance is usually most manifest during election campaigns. [...]
Highlights
Penal populism is often labeled as a process whereby politicians devise punitive penal policies, which are adjudged to be “popular” within the general public, and are designed to mobilize votes rather than improve the crime and justice situation
The Ro ots of “Penal Populism”: the Role of Media and Politics 99 sented segments of society. Populism functionally criticizes those sectors of society which allowed the mistreatment and social oversight to occur by “[...] engineering this marginalization of disenfranchisement of ‘ordinary people’” (Pratt 2007, p. 9)
It should be noted that punishment and its provision resides in the discourse of the “power field” as well as in politics directly
Summary
Penal populism is often labeled as a process whereby politicians devise punitive penal policies, which are adjudged to be “popular” within the general public, and are designed to mobilize votes rather than improve the crime and justice situation. Representatives of the political field became participants in the mass media-created narrative, legitimating both their own and the media’s right to professional legal discourse.
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