There is increasing evidence that, in general terms, much transnational
lesson-drawing in criminal justice has been at the symbolic rather than the
substantive level. Much of what has been ‘transferred’ has been
terminology or rhetoric rather than the technologies and techniques of crime
control. That is not to imply that these transfers have been inconsequential, for
‘political rhetoric and official representations of crime and criminals
have a symbolic significance and a practical efficacy that have real social
consequences. Sometimes “talk” is
“action”’ (Garland, 2001: 22). In this article we
outline a particular case of lesson-drawing that has had, we argue, a dramatic
impact on British penal policy. This case, the defeat of Michael Dukakis in the 1988
US Presidential election, has had a long-lasting impact on electoral politics in the
USA but also, we suggest, in the more specific arena of the mediated politics of
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