Why prison?  [electronic resource] / 
edited by David Scott. 
 - Cambridge :  Cambridge University Press,  2013. 
 - xxii, 381 p. :  ill. 
 - Cambridge studies in law and society .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Why prison? : posing the question / David Scott -- Prisons and social structure in late-capitalist societies / Alessandro De Giorgi -- The prison paradox in neoliberal britain / Emma Bell -- Crafting the neoliberal state: workfare, prisonfare, and social insecurity / Loic Wacquant -- Pleasure, punishment and the professional middle class / Magnus Hornqvist -- Penal spectatorship and the culture of punishment / Michelle Brown -- Prison and the public sphere: toward a democratic theory of penal order / Vanessa Barker -- The iron cage of prison studies / Mark Brown -- The prison and national identity : citizenship, punishment and the sovereign state / Emma Kaufman and Mary Bosworth -- Punishing the detritus and the damned : penal and semi-penal institutions in liverpool / Vickie Cooper and Joe Sim -- Why prison? : incarceration and the great recession / Keally McBride -- Ghosts of the past, present, and future of penal reform in the United States / Marie Gottschalk -- Schooling the carceral state: challenging the school to prison pipeline / Erica Meiners -- Why no prisons? / Julia C. Oparah -- Unequalled in pain / David Scott. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Prisons.<br/>Punishment.<br/>Crime.<br/>Criminal justice, Administration of.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV8665  / .W43 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>365