Ignacio González-Sánchez is a Serra Húnter lecturer at Universitat the Girona, Spain. He has published articles and books on crime policy, prisons, judges, and the criminalisation of demonstrations.

• Preface by Loïc WacquantIntroduction to the English Edition1. THINKING PUNISHMENT2. NEOLIBERAL PENALITY3. UTILITARIAN INDIVIDUALISM: RATIONAL SUBJECTS AND THE PROFANE STATE4. THE FLEXIBLE LABOUR MARKET: PRECARITY AND DECOLLECTIVISATION5. ACTIVE SOCIAL POLICY: RE-COMMODIFICATION AND MORALISATION6. AN EXPANSIVE PENAL SYSTEM: REDUCING ANXIETY AND INCREASING OPPORTUNITY COSTCONCLUSIONEPILOGUE: ON THE CRISIS, NEOLIBERAL LOGICS, AND THE DECLINE IN PRISONERS

"González-Sánchez extends, enriches and challenges the “neoliberal penality thesis” I proposed a decade ago in Punishing the Poor"Loïc Wacquant, University of California, Berkeley"It makes a significant contribution to the political economy of punishment by closely scrutinising the impact of the neoliberal ethos and rationales on three key public policy fields, that is, labour policies, social policies, and penal policies. […] [Neoliberalism and Punishment] goes a long way in revitalising and updating academic debates on the neoliberal penality thesis."Punishment & Society"González-Sánchez’s work is far more than a case study. It is a theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded intervention that enriches our understanding of neoliberalism and penal policy. It challenges the dominant theoretical frameworks of the Anglophone world and opens new avenues for comparative research."European Journal of Probation"González’s book does much more than just testing neoliberal penality theses. It is also remarkable in theoretical terms. In fact, N&P contains plenty of insightful methodological and epistemic comments scattered throughout its seven chapters."Social and Legal Studies