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1 The Empire’s coming home: Liberalism, Exclusion and the Punitiveness of the British State British Society of Criminology Annual Conference University of Liverpool July 2014 J.M. Moore

2 The “New Punitiveness” Increased Imprisonment –More people –For longer Increased surveillance and supervision Reduced tolerance Targeting of working class and black and minority ethnic communities Criminal Justice -v- Welfare Solutions

3 Histories of Punishment Civilising From Physical to Carceal –‘Instead of losing a hand, imprisonment for ten years’. (Christie 2000:46) Alternatives to imprisonment Decline of the prison Rise of Welfare

4 The Lost Empire: Colonial Omissions from Penal Histories Mutiny and brutal repression Criminal Tribes Act Godna, fingerprinting and bertilage Prison and Slavery Further Mutiny and more brutal repression Genocide, torture, rape, concentration camps

5 Mills Liberalism: ‘ Inclusionary discipline’ I regard it as required by first principles, that the receipt of parish relief should be a peremptory disqualification for the franchise. (Mill 1997b:472) If it is asserted that all persons ought to be equal in every description of right recognised by society, I answer, not until all are equal in worth as human beings……a person who cannot read, is not as good, for the purpose of human life, as one who can. (Mill 1997c:323)

6 Mills Liberalism: the homogeneous race “Among a people without fellow- feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the workings of representative government, cannot exist” Mill 1977b:547

7 Mills Liberalism: ‘exclusionary exceptions’ “Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with Barbarians, providing the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.” Mill 1977a:224

8 From – criminality and crime control, – rights and responsibilities, – inclusion and exclusion, To – race, – terror, – religion, – culture – and immigration


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