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Zusatztext "A significantly expanded range of issues and international sweep. Cutting edge stuff - original and challenging essays reaching way beyond the useful overview of the field that?the title?Handbook conjures up."David Brown! Emeritus Professor! Law Faculty! University of NSW! Sydney! Australia"An impressive collection of essays addressing some of the key issues in prison research and practice which are currently engaging policy makers! academics and practitioners alike. This is a considerable achievement for the editors - Yvonne Jewkes! Jamie Bennett and Ben Crewe! who have brought together leading authorities in the field to write about these issues in a fresh and engaging way . If you only buy one textbook on prisons this year! make sure that it is this one."Dr Sharon Shalev! Centre for Criminology! University of Oxford! UK. Author of Supermax: Controlling Risk Through Solitary Confinement (Willan! 2009)"The arrival of this second edition of the Handbook on Prisons could not be more timely. Mass incarceration! perhaps the most significant social fact of our time! is both expanding and transforming on a global basis. The new volume brings the world's leading experts on penology and punishment and society together and forges a comprehensive platform of historical! theoretical! and problem centered frameworks to analyze the present conjuncture."Jonathan S. Simon! Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law; Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society! UC Berkeley! USA Informationen zum Autor Yvonne Jewkes is Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester. She is editor of the first Handbook on Prisons (2007), author of Captive Audience: Media, Masculinity and Power in Prisons (2002), and series editor (with Ben Crewe and Thomas Ugelvik) of Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Yvonne’s publications on prison architecture include (with Philip Hancock) 'Penal Aesthetics and the Pains of Imprisonment’, Punishment & Society ; (with Dominique Moran) ‘The paradox of the "green" prison: sustaining the environment or sustaining the penal complex?’, Theoretical Criminology ; and ‘The Aesthetics and Anaesthetics of Prison Architecture’, in Simon, J. et al Architecture and Justice (2013) . Ben Crewe is Deputy Director of the Prisons Research Centre at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Dr. Crewe has published widely on prisons and imprisonment, and is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Criminology. His current research is on prisoners serving very long sentences from an early age. Jamie Bennett has been a prison manager since 1996 and is currently Governor of HMP Grendon & Springhill. Dr. Bennett is also a Research Associate at the University of Oxford and has edited Prison Service Journal since 2004. He has written widely on prisons and was awarded a PhD at University of Edinburgh. Klappentext The second edition of the Handbook on Prisons builds on the critical and commercial success of the first edition and includes new chapters, new sections and new authors to give it a fresh and significantly different feel to its predecessor. Zusammenfassung The second edition of the Handbook on Prisons builds on the critical and commercial success of the first edition and includes new chapters, new sections and new authors to give it a fresh and significantly different feel to its predecessor. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part 1: Prisons in Context 1. Prisons in Context, Andrew Coyle 2. Prison Histories, 1770s-1950s: Continuities and contradictions, Helen Johnston 3. The Aims of Imprisonment, Ian O’Donnell 4. The Politics of Imprisonment, Richard Sparks, Jessica Bird and Louise Brangan 5. The So...
