The contemporary American will to punish is simultaneously in disarray and experiencing dramatic expansion. Crime, despite the ambiguities of its statistical measurement, remains a central focus of contemporary politics. Notwithstanding a “crisis of penological modernism” that has undercut traditional explanations and justifications for the penal apparatus, prison construction continues at an accelerated pace while proposals for increasing the severity of juvenile punishments seem omnipresent. Criminological discussions continue to stress the technicalities of the problem of punishment while larger social issues remain marginalized. In this situation, the evident problems of the criminal justice system are transmuted into programs for increasing its reach and power.

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