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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
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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
Info autore
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.
