The criminal is the other side of the consumer I criminal doublet. David Garland �escribes in detail the decline of the rehabilitative ideal in penai policy over the past thirty years. He explains: "Crime has been redramatized. The stock welfarist image of the delinquent as a disadvantaged, deserving, subject of need has now al but disappeared. Instead, the images conjured up to accompany new legislation tend to be stereotypical depictions of unruly youth, dangerous predators, and incorrigible career criminals. Accompanying these projected images, and in rhetorical response to them, the new discourse of crime policy consistently invokes an angry public, tired of living in fear, demanding strong measures of punishment and protection:'60 AB Garland makes clear, criminals today figure as strange attractors in revenge fantasies. They stand in for the inexplicable, the unpredictable. AB sites of loss, they embody and occlude neoliberal ideology's inability to account for, to alow for, loss and losers. Free-trade fantasy necessarily recuperates loss in a narrative of gain-everybody wins. Losses in the Real, Real losses, don't fit. They are overwhelming, excessive. The criminal is the imaginary figure covering over and sustaining this excess of loss. His monstrosity marks the horror of losing, our inability to account for inevitable contingencies. The neoliberal criminal, then, is outside the domain of calculable risk: we can never be insured against the loss he inflicts upon us. The logic, as Passavant points out, is one of zero tolerance.61 No risk is acceptable; any risk is monstrous, unbearable.
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