cjm 89: The poverty of punishment

Tammy McGloughlin and Helen Mills introduce this issue of cjm

Frances P Bernat and Nicholas Godlove argue that it is time to extend the principle of universal jurisdiction to the typical types of cyber-offences

Ross McGarry highlights British military deaths and questions the commitment of the government to adequately protect the armed forces within war as a ‘workplace’

Jane Jones describes recent trends in the theft of livestock and agricultural machinery in the countryside

Mark Brunger considers the recent proposals to outsource elements of frontline policing to private providers

Michael King looks at the licensing and industry reforms that have shaped the modern private investigator

Sean Creaney reports on how children involved in youth justice processes are unable to overcome the negative ‘outsider’ label attached them

Vincenzo Ruggiero introduces the contributions to the themed section

Vincenzo Ruggiero considers a theoretical mapping of the functions of imprisonment

Mick Ryan on making sense of changes in the penal system in the context of David Cameron’s political mantra

Frances Crook considers state punishment of young people

Joe Sim focuses on the authoritarian response to the August 2011 disturbances

Anthony Goodman contends that yet again, the future of probation is in doubt as privatisation beckons

Ruth Jamieson looks at the way in which prisoners and victims have been treated in a post-conflict society

Leonidas K Cheliotis focuses on the proliferation of arts-in-prisons programmes and questions the extent to which they have a positive function

Anthony Goodman provides a commentary to the photographs by Robert Gumpert

Loïc Wacquant diagnoses the resurgence of the prison in advanced societies

Christina Pantazis and Simon Pemberton present their findings on the nature and extent of harms in society

Bill Puddicombe, Dan Corry, Chris Fox and Kevin Albertson debate the merits and disadvantages of payment by results