Why prison? [electronic resource] / edited by David Scott. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. - xxii, 381 p. : ill. - Cambridge studies in law and society .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Prisons.
Punishment.
Crime.
Criminal justice, Administration of.


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