Summary
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Key Readings
Prisons and Punishment provides a critical overview of the main debates and dilemmas associated with prisons, imprisonment, and punishment. It acquaints readers with the most interesting and influential literature that has shaped the field internationally. This reference collection is particularly timely because of the exponentially growing prison populations in many countries, creating a crisis in their penal systems.
Volume 1: The Meaning of the Prison – outlines the emergence of the modern prison and explores differing contemporary models of imprisonment in various parts of the world. It examines prisons in market societies, covering recent moves towards increasing managerialism and greater accountability.
Volume 2: Prisoners and Prison Communities – explores the pervasive characteristics and ‘effects’ of imprisonment from sociological and psychological perspectives. It discusses life in prison for ...
Editor's Introduction
A compilation of volume Introductions.
Introduction to Volume I
Part 1: Punishment in a Time of Social, Cultural and Economic Change
According to the most recently available statistics (Walmsley, 2007), the world prison population currently numbers over 9.25 million people, up from 8.75 million in just five years. Why does the global incarceration rate continue to rise? Are crime rates falling as a consequence of locking up more people? Which countries rely the most on imprisonment as a penal sanction? How can we explain the fact that some countries seem to be reversing the international trend and reducing their prison numbers? What are the consequences of private investors’ profiting from prisons? This volume seeks to provide answers to these universal questions, and also to provide a ...
Table of Contents
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Volume 1: The Meaning of the Prison
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Punishment in Times of Social, Cultural and Economic Change
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1. Social Change and Social Order in Late Modernity
David Garland
2001
The Culture of Control
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2. Understanding Prison Policy and Population Trends
Theodore Caplow | Joan Simon
1999
Prisons
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John Pratt
2007
Penal Populism
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4. Introducing Comparative Penology
Michael Cavadino | James Dignan
2006
Penal Systems: A Comparative Approach
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5. Opposing Outcomes of the Industrial Prison: Japan and the United States Compared
Elmer Johnson
1994
International Criminal Justice Review
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6. Barter: Russia's ‘Penal Micro-Economy’
Laura Piacentini
2004
Surviving Russian Prisons: Punishment, Economy and Politics in Transition
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Diverse Approaches to Understanding Imprisonment
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7. The Proper use of Imprisonment
Rod Morgan
2000
Punishment and the Prison: Indian and International Perspectives
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8. From Nothing Works to what Works: Changing Professional Ideology in the 21st Century
Francis Cullen | Paul Gendreau
2001
The Prison Journal
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Elaine Genders | Elaine Player
1995
Grendon: A Study of a Therapeutic Prison
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10. The New Generation Jail: An Overview
Linda Zupan | Ben Menke
1991
American Jails: Public Policy Issues
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11. Can Prisons be Legitimate? Penal Politics, Privatization, and the Timeliness of an Old Idea
Richard Sparks
1994
British Journal of Criminology
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Managerialism and the Market
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12. The New Penology: Notes on the Emerging Strategy of Corrections and its Implications
Malcolm Feeley | Jonathan Simon
1992
Criminology
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13. Crime Control as a Product
Nils Christie
2000
Crime Control as Industry: Towards GULAGS, Western Style (3rd edition)
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14. Crime — A Good Business? The Impact of the Free Market
Vivien Stern
2006
Creating Criminals
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15. Punishment, Markets and the American Model: An Essay on a New American Dilemma
Marcellus Andrews
2003
The Use of Punishment
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16. Juvenile Crime Pays — but at what Cost?
Alex Friedmann
2006
Capitalist Punishment: Prison Privatization & Human Rights
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Volume 2: Prisoners and Prison Communities
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The ‘Characteristics’ of Imprisonment
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17. The Inmate World
Erving Goffman
1961
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
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Gresham Sykes
1958
The Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison
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19. The Closed Emotional World of the Security Wing
Stanley Cohen | Laurie Taylor
1972
Psychological Survival: The Experience of Long-Term Imprisonment
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Thomas Mathiesen
1965
A Sociological Study of a Norwegian Correctional Institution
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Kinnett Edgar | Ian Donnell | Carol Martin
2003
Prison Violence: The Dynamics of Conflict, Fear and Power
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Coping, Adaptation and Resistance
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22. The First Cut is the Deepest: Psychological Breakdown and Survival in the Detention Setting
John Gibbs
1982
The Pains of Imprisonment
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23. Behavior and Adaptation in Long-Term Prison Inmates: Descriptive Longitudinal Results
Edward Zamble
1992
Criminal Justice and Behavior
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24. The Changing Nature of Interpersonal Relationships in a Women's Prison
Kimberly Greer
2000
The Prison Journal
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25. Resistance and Violence: Power, Intimidation, and Control of Space
Kieran McEvoy
2001
Paramilitary Imprisonment in Northern Ireland: Resistance, Management and Release
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Robert Adams
1994
Prison Riots in Britain and the USA (2nd edition)
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The ‘Other’ Prison Population: Officers and Governors
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27. Degradation
John Irwin
1985
The Jail: Managing the Underclass in American Society
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28. Transition of the Guard Force
James Jacobs
1977
Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society
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29. Mind Games: Where the Action is in prisons
Kathleen McDermott | Roy King
1988
British Journal of Criminology
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30. Them and us? How Officers See Prisoners
Elaine Crawley
2004
Doing Prison Work: The Public and Private Lives of Prison Officers
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31. Managing Prisons: A Difficult Public Profession
Andrew Coyle
2002
Managing Prisons in a Time of Change
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Volume 3: Punishment: Controversial Issues and Emerging Debates
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The ‘New Punitiveness’
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32. Project Exile: Race, the War on Crime, and Mass Imprisonment
Jonathan Simon
2007
Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear
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33. Supermax Meets Death Row: Legal Struggles Around the New Punitiveness in the US
Mona Lynch
2005
The New Punitiveness: Trends, Theories, Perspectives
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Roger Matthews
2005
Theoretical Criminology
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Mick Ryan
2005
The New Punitiveness: Trends, Theories, Perspectives
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Social Exclusion, Bias and Imprisonment
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36. Bias in the Criminal Justice System
Michael Cavadino | James Dignan
2007
The Penal System: An Introduction (4th edition)
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37. Scars
Jarvis Masters
2001
Prison Masculinities
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38. Prisoner Society in the Era of Hard Drugs
Ben Crewe
2005
Punishment & Society
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39. Men behind Bars: “Doing” Masculinity as an Adaptation to Imprisonment
Yvonne Jewkes
2005
Men and Masculinities
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40. Understanding how Race, Class, and Gender Impact the Health of Incarcerated Women
Ronald Braithwaite
2006
Health Issues among Incarcerated Women
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Russell Dobash | R. Dobash | Sue Gutteridge
1986
The Imprisonment of Women
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42. Prisoner Reentry: Public Safety and Reintegration Challenges
Joan Petersilia
2001
The Prison Journal
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Alternative Approaches to Punishment: The Expanding Carceral Net?
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Mick Ryan | Joe Sim
2007
Handbook on Prisons
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44. Prisoners’ Rights in the Context of the European Convention on Human Rights
Stephen Livingstone
2000
Punishment & Society
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45. Reparative and Restorative Approaches
Gill McIvor
2004
Alternatives to Prison: Options for an Insecure Society
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46. Demanding but Not Degrading? The Appeal of Community Punishment and Electronic Monitoring
Anne Worrall | Clare Hoy
2005
Punishment in the Community: Managing Offenders, Making Choices (2nd edition)
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47. The Punitive City: Notes on the Dispersal of Social Control
Stanley Cohen
1979
Contemporary Crises
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48. Fear of Crime
Setha Low
2003
Behind the Gates: Life, Security and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America
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