Prison readings : a critical introduction to prisons and imprisonment

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Title:

Prison readings : a critical introduction to prisons and imprisonment

Author:

Jewkes, Yvonne, 1966-

ISBN:

9781843921493

9781843921480

9781843921486

Publication Information:

Cullompton : Willan, 2006.

Physical Description:

xi, 305 p. ; 25 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Pt. A. The emergence of the modern prison -- 1. The body of the condemned / Michel Foucault -- 2. The prison chaplain : memoirs of Reverend John Clay / Walter Lowe Clay -- 3. Women, crime and custody in Victorian England / Lucia Zedner -- 4. Grinding men good? : Lancashire's prisons at mid-century / Margaret E. DeLacy -- 5. Victorian prison lives / Philip Priestley -- 6. The well-ordered prison : England, 1780-1865 / Randall McGowen -- Pt. B. Theoretical approaches and emerging trends -- 7. Prison privatization : panacea or Pandora's box? / Michael Cavadino and James Dignan -- 8. Can prisons be legitimate? : penal politics, privatization, and the timeliness of an old idea / Richard Sparks -- 9. Legitimacy and order in prisons / Richard Sparks and Anthony Bottoms -- 10. The rise and rise of supermax : an American solution in search of a problem? / Roy D. King -- 11. Softly does it / Sally Weale -- 12. The abolitionist approach : a British perspective / Joe Sim -- Pt. C. Prison populations -- 13. Tougher than the rest? : men in prison / Joe Sim -- 14. Analysing women's imprisonment / Pat Carlen and Anne Worrall -- 15. From the inside / Ruth Wyner -- 16. Racism in prisons / Ben Bowling and Coretta Phillips -- 17. Paramilitary imprisonment in Northern Ireland : resistance, management, and release / Kieran McEvoy -- 18. From Borstal to YOI / John Muncie -- Pt. D. The prison community -- 19. The society of captives : a study of a maximum security prison / Gresham M. Sykes -- 20. Asylums : essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates / Erving Goffman -- 21. Time and deterioration / Stanley Cohen and Laurie Taylor -- 22. The defences of the weak : a sociological study of a Norwegian correctional institution / Thomas Mathiesen -- 23. Mind games : where the action is in prisons / Kathleen McDermott and Roy D. King -- 24. Doing prison work : the public and private lives of prison officers / Elaine Crawley -- Pt. E. Current controversies -- 25. Social characteristics of prisoners -- 26. Suicides in prison : ten years on / Alison Liebling -- 27. The drugs economy and the prisoner society / Ben Crewe -- 28. Radical risk management, mental health and criminal justice / Philip Fennell -- 29. Life as a woman : the gendered pains of indeterminate imprisonment / Stephanie Walker and Anne Worrall -- 30. United States of America : prison labour : a tale of two penologies / James B. Jacobs -- 31. Prisoners' rights in the context of the European convention on human rights / Stephen Livingstone -- Conclusion : prisons, public opinion and the 'new punitiveness'

Subject Term:

Prisons.

Imprisonment.

Added Author:

Jewkes, Yvonne, 1966-

Johnston, Helen.

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Summary

Prison Readings provides a comprehensive, critical introduction to the main debates and dilemmas associated with prisons and imprisonment, bringing together a selection of the key readings on the subject, along with a comprehensive introduction and commentary written by the editors. It will be essential reading for students studying prisons as part of courses in criminology, sociology, law, psychology and other disciplines and practitioners working in this field.

Prison Readings introduces students to the history and development of prisons, contemporary theories and issues relating to prison populations, to sociological and psychological literature on the 'effects' of imprisonment, and to debates about the management and privatisation of the prison estate and emerging trends.