Communitarian moral campaigns conceal renewed projects of discipline and punishment

Evidence

Hold on a minute. The general orientation of this book and the general trend it exemplified is precisely about individualism. It’s about creating very definite kinds of individual, who possess quite specific types of virtue and docility. The moral gravity engendered here is above all a matter of finding new ways to discipline and punish, or to use Edwin Meese III’s telling phrase, it’s about “punishing creatively” (Meese, 1999:95). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2975

Categorization

• SEED: The ‘moral poverty’ response to youth crime as a narrative device - how appeals to virtue mask state punishment.