Why prison?

by Scott, David Gordon

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Brings together some of the world's leading writers to engage with the most profound question in penology: why prison""

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Full title :Why prison? / edited by David Scott.

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Brings together some of the world's leading writers to engage with the most profound question in penology: why prison""

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

Notes

Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 30 octobre 2013).

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Description:1 online resource (1 texte électronique (407 p.))

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ISBN:9781139344258, 1139344250
oclc:ocn891127163
LC Classification:HV8665
Dewey Decimal:365

Cover; Contents; Figures and Tables; Contributors; Table of Cases; Foreword; 1. Why prison? Posing the question; Global hyper-incarceration; Questioning incarceration; 1. Prisons are a natural and inevitable response to 'crime'; 2. Prison prevents 'crime' by deterring offenders; 3. Prison turns bad criminals into good citizens; 4. Prisons protect the public from 'dangerous offenders'; 5. Prison reflects our need to punish 'crime'; Structure of the book; Part I. Penal discipline; 2. Prisons and social structures in late-capitalist societies*; Political economy of punishment.

Neoliberal penal discipline in the USAIllegalisation and criminalisation in Europe; Toward a post-reductionist political economy of punishment; 3. The prison paradox in neoliberal Britain; Neoliberalism in contemporary Britain; The symbolic function of imprisonment: the prison as a site of exclusion; The diversionary function of imprisonment: the prison as a tool of legitimacy; Authoritarian populism; The security-industrial complex; Conclusion; 4. Crafting the neoliberal state: workfare, prisonfare and social insecurity*; When workfare joins prisonfare: theoretical implications.

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Crime Criminal justice, Administration of Criminalite -- Aspect social e-books Justice pénale -- Administration Livres numériques Peines Prisons Punishment