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From Modern to Postmodern Penality?

A Response to Hallsworth

Lancaster University, UK

Majid Yar

Lancaster University, UK

This article responds to a recent article by Hallsworth (2000), which claims that contemporary changes in penal practice indicate the rise of a postmodern penality. We identify three issues raised by Hallsworth's argument, encompassing methodological, empirical and conceptual questions. We argue that his approach exhibits some methodological problems, as well as a conceptual conflation between `postmodernity' as a social formation and `postmodernism' as an anti-foundational epistemology for social inquiry. Given the problems identified here, we suggest that a convincing case for a `postmodern penality' has not yet been made.

Key Words: modernism • modernity • penality • postmodernism • postmodernity

Theoretical Criminology, Vol. 7, No. 4, 469-482 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/13624806030074004


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