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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
Novus Ordo Saeclorum?: A Commentary on Downes, and on Beckett and Western
Novus Ordo Saeclorum?: A Commentary on Downes, and on Beckett and Western
The sociological study of state punishment policies and practices – long a minor criminological specialty – is currently undergoing a renaissance. Stimulated at least in part by the historically unprecedented growth of American prison populations over the past 30 years, the study of prison populations and the reasons they change has attracted new researchers and has stimulated new lines of rich theorizing, as exemplified by the articles in this collection.
Several features distinguish this new work from its antecedents. It no longer looks at punishment in isolation from other social institutions; it considers historical change, and some of it is cross-national. In ...
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