Prison readings : a critical introduction to prisons and imprisonment
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Prison readings : a critical introduction to prisons and imprisonment
Willan, 2006
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- The body of the condemned / Michel Foucault
- The prison chaplain : memoirs of Reverend John Clay / Walter Lowe Clay
- Women, crime and custody in Victorian England / Lucia Zedner
- Grinding men good? : Lancashire's prisons at mid-century / Margaret E. De Lacy
- Victorian prison lives / Philip Priestley
- The well-ordered prison : England, 1780-1865 / Randall McGowen
- Prison privatization : panacea or Pandora's box? / Michael Cavadino and James Dignan
- Can prisons be legitimate? : penal politics, privatization, and the timeliness of an old idea / Richard Sparks
- Legitimacy and order in prisons / Richard Sparks and Anthony Bottoms
- The rise and rise of supermax : an American solution in search of a problem? / Roy D. King
- Softly does it / Sally Weale
- The abolitionist approach : a British perspective / Joe Sim
- Tougher than the rest? : men in prison / Joe Sim
- Analysing women's imprisonment / Pat Carlen and Anne Worrall
- From the inside / Ruth Wyner
- Racism in prisons / Ben Bowling and Coretta Phillips
- Paramilitary imprisonment in Northern Ireland : resistance, management and release / Kieran McEvoy
- From Borstal to YOI / John Muncie
- The society of captives : a study of a maximum security prison / Gresham M. Sykes
- Asylums : essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates / Erving Goffman
- Time and deterioration / Stanley Cohen and Laurie Taylor
- The defences of the weak : a sociological study of a Norwegian correctional institution / Thomas Mathiesen
- Mind games : where the action is in prisons / Kathleen McDermott and Roy D. King
- Doing prison work : the public and private lives of prison officers / Elaine Crawley
- Suicides in prison : ten years on / Alison Liebling
- The drugs economy and the prisoner society / Ben Crewe
- Radical risk management, mental health and criminal justice / Philip Fennell
- Life as a woman : the gendered pains of indeterminate imprisonment / Stephanie Walker and Anne Worrall
- United States of America : prison labour : a tale of two penologies / James B. Jacobs
- Prisoners' rights in the context of the European Convention on Human Rights / Stephen Livingstone
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Prisons in Context Part A: The Emergence of the Modern Prison Extracts from Michael Foucault, W. Clay, Lucia Zedner, Margaret E. De Lacy, Philip Priestley, Randall McGowenPart B: Theoretical Approaches and Emerging Trends Extracts from Michael Cavadino and James Dignan, Richard Sparks, J.R. Sparks and A.E. Bottoms, Roy D. King, Sally Weale, Joe SimPart C: Prison Populations Extracts from Joe Sim, Pat Carlen and Anne Worrall, Ruth Wyner, Ben Bowling and Coretta Phillips, Kieran McEvoy, John MunciePart D: The Prison Community Extracts from Gresham M. Sykes, Erving Goffman, Stanley Cohen and Laurie Taylor, Thomas Mathiesen, Kathleen McDermott and Roy D. King, Elaine CrawleyPart E: Current Controversies Extracts from Alison Liebling, Ben Crewe, Philip Fennell, Stephanie Walker and Anne Worrall, James B. Jacobs, Stephen Livingstone
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