Imagining the global corporate gulag: lessons from history and criminological theory

摘要

This article explores the enabling pre-conditions of global mass imprisonment from historical and criminological perspectives. Driven in part by Western first-world anxieties about weakening economic supremacy, declining safety, declining standard of living, and increasing social isolation in a diaspora of strangers, this article explores the spread of penal populism beyond American shores, with a particular focus on the proliferation of privatized, for-profit, punishment schemes. The expressive and instrumental functions of actuarial punishment schemes are noted.