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This major new volume of papers by leading criminologists, sociologists and historians, sets out what is known about the political and penological causes of the phenomenon of mass imprisonment. Mass imprisonment, American-style, involves the penal segregation of large numbers of the poor and minorities. Imprisonment has become a central institution for the social control of the urban poor. Other countries are now looking to the USA to see what should be learned from this massive and controversial social experiment. This book describes mass imprisonment's impact upon crime, upon the minority communities most affected, upon social policy and, more broadly upon national culture. This is a book that all penologists and poli
Bringing the Individual Back in: A Commentary on Wacquant and Anderson
Bringing the Individual Back in: A Commentary on Wacquant and Anderson
The articles of Loïc Wacquant and Elijah Anderson are in a tradition that I fear is fast leaving us – not only in criminology but also in law. As well as commenting on these articles, I want to comment upon the unintended consequences of the research methodologies that have come to characterize contemporary criminological research. Both of these articles by implication offer a challenge to much of the current wisdom in that regard.
A couple of years ago, someone asked well-known social theorist and linguist Noam Chomsky why he was so seldom seen in the mainstream media – particularly on television. This seemed particularly curious ...
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