Vickie Barrett & Emily Gray 
Politics, Punitiveness, and Problematic Populations [PDF ebook] 
Public Perceptions of ‘Scroungers’, ‘Unruly’ Children, and ‘Good for Nothings’

Chapter 1: What Do We Know About Punitiveness?.- Chapter 2: Exploring Trends in Punitiveness.- Chapter 3: Generational effects of attitudes towards rulebreakers.- Chapter 4: Using cognitive interviewing to explore contemporary attitudes towards ‘rulebreakers’.- Chapter 5: A Quantitative Framework.- Chapter 6: The Need to Punish? Punitive attitudes towards Rulebreaking School Pupils.- Chapter 7: Cheating the System? Punitive attitudes towards Rulebreaking Welfare Claimants.- Chapter 7: Cheating the System? Punitive attitudes towards Rulebreaking Welfare Claimants.- Chapter 9: The Relationship between Social and Political Attitudes and Punitiveness.- Chapter 10: Conclusion.

Vickie Barrett is Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She worked as a teacher and a probation officer before returning to academia to undertake her Ph D at the University of Sheffield.  
  
Emily Gray is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Warwick in the Sociology Department, UK. She is a mixed methods researcher who specialises in examining long-term trends in relation to crime, politics and society. 
  

Stephen Farrall is Professor of Criminology in the School of Sociology & Social Policy at the University of Nottingham, UK. His recent book Respectable Citizens – Shady Practices (OUP, 2020) won the Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division of White-Collar and Corporate Crime.