Morality and Justice: Challenging the Established Order

Abstract

The final chapter returns to motifs that channel their way through preceding chapters, particularly moral economy, criminal justice, probation and penalty. The past was a different place before the 1980s, supported by different politico-economic, intellectual and moral conventions. Since the 1980s, and gathering pace towards 2015, hegemonic a moral neoliberalism has extended the reach of privatisation and market competition into all areas of social life. This has redefined the politico-economic and organisational structures of existence, in addition to subjective experience. Moral economy contains the resources to mount an intellectual and moral challenge to the established order of things.