Punishment and Prisons - Power and the Carceral State

Informationen zum Autor Joe Sim is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He has written extensively about prisons, the state and punishment. He was a member of the Radical Alternatives to Prison Collective and is currently a Trustee of the charity INQUEST. Klappentext Critical, provocative and up to date, this book will stimulate debate about the current penal crisis. Zusammenfassung Critical! provocative and up to date! this book will stimulate debate about the current penal crisis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Continuity and Contestation in Penal Politics Law, Order and the Penal System 1974-1983 Hard Reign Thatcherism and the Consolidation of Penal Authoritarianism, 1983-1990 From Big House to Bleak House Prisons in the ¿Iron Times¿ 1990-1997 ¿Piety and Iron¿ New Labour and Social Authoritarianism ¿Those with no Capital get the Punishment¿ New Labour and the Working Prison For Abolitionist Praxis Transcending the Prison Mentality Abolitionism in an Anti-Utopian Age

Product details

• Authors: Joe Sim, Sim Joe
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2009
• EAN: 9780761960041
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-6004-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology, Prison Studies