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12 Punishment & Soc'y 5 (2010)

handle is hein.journals/punscty12 and id is 1 raw text is: Copyright @The Author(s), 2010. Reprints and permissions: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/ journalsPermissions.nav 1462-4745; Vol 12(1): 5-6 DOI: 10.1177/1462474509349087 PUNISHMENT & SOCIETY Editorial ALISON LIEBLING AND DIRK VAN ZYL SMIT Cambridge University and the University of Nottingham, UK When David Garland wrote his first Editorial for Punishment and Society in 1999 his vision was that it would become 'an intellectual project, not just another journal'. It should provide 'an intellectual and institutional space to think about questions of penal change, penal practice and punishment', provide 'a new focus for penological scholar- ship, and foster the field's development by encouraging interdisciplinary and inter- national exchange, highlighting new and innovative work, and providing a dedicated forum for all those whose interests centre upon penal matters' (1999: 10). Richard Sparks, and then Malcolm Feeley and Jonathan Simon, ably stewarded the journal along these lines, and we thank them for their hard work and intellectual leadership. We are honoured to be taking our turn as Editors in Chief and aim to pursue this original vision. Punishment and Society is a scholarly periodical, but we hope that the scholarship it represents can be regarded as having implications for practice and that it will also be read by those who make and manage policy. The journal should encourage dialogue and reflection: as Richard Sparks (2004: 355) suggested in his outgoing note of thanks: we seek to provide a venue in which scholars from a wide range of national, cultural and disci- plinary starting points might find a ready, open-minded and engaged audience; and at the same time to ensure that a certain set of often deeply troubling institutional and political phenomena, whose implications in diverse ways haunt the public life of every contemporary society, be laid open to a new intensity of concerted and systematic inquiry. Penal institutions continue to be deeply problematic aspects of our contemporary social life, with politically led, tough-on-crime policies driving unprecedented expan- sion, overcrowding and increasing resort to privatization. New financial constraints are causing increasing problems for crumbling penal systems. Tensions and shortcomings are widely documented. At the same time new punishment practices are evolving, whose shape, meaning and effects provide fresh analytical challenges. Like the prison, new community sanctions and penalties embody conflicting urges to condemn, reform, censure, exclude, trans- form, repair and harm. The boundaries of punishment institutions have become blurred: on the edges of the more formal penal apparatus, excluded and stigmatized 'outcast' populations are increasingly vulnerable to other types of custody and control, of a permanent and debilitating kind. Public safety is undermined rather than guaranteed by increasing resort to the use of punishment sanctions.

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