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... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > penology > prisons and correctional facilities > key people in prisons and correctional facilities > constitutive penology
... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > penology > prisons and correctional facilities > theories of punishment > constitutive penology

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constitutive penology  

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  • Constitutive penology is an extension of post-modernist constitutive criminological theory. Its proponents argue that societal responses to crime are interrelated with the wider society, particularly through “crime and punishment” talk. [Source: Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities; Constitutive Penology]

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