Mass Imprisonment Social Causes and Consequences 1st Edition by David W Garland ISBN 0761973249 978-0761973249

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ISBN 10: 0761973249

ISBN 13: 978-0761973249

Author: David W Garland 

This major new volume of papers by leading criminologists, sociologists and historians, sets out what is known about the political and penological causes of the phenomenon of mass imprisonment.

Mass imprisonment, American-style, involves the penal segregation of large numbers of the poor and minorities. Imprisonment has become a central institution for the social control of the urban poor.

Other countries are now looking to the USA to see what should be learned from this massive and controversial social experiment. This book describes mass imprisonment′s impact upon crime, upon the minority communities most affected, upon social policy and, more broadly upon national culture. This is a book that all penologists and poli

Table of contents: 

1.Introduction – David Garland
2.The Meaning of Mass Imprisonment
3.The Causes and Consequences of Prison Growth in the United States – Marc Mauer
4.Fear and Loathing in Late Modernity – Jonathan Simon
5.Reflections on the Cultural Sources of Mass Imprisonment in the United States
6.Television, Public Space and Prison Population – Thomas Mathiesen
7.A Commentary on Mauer and Simon
8.Governing Social Marginality – Katherine Beckett and Bruce Western
9.Welfare Incarceration and the Transformation of State
10.The Macho Penal Economy – David Downes
11.Mass Incarceration in the United States- A European Perspective
12.Novus ordo saeclorum? A Commentary on Downes, and on Beckett and Western – David Greenberg
13.Deadly Symbiosis – Lo[ac]ic Wacquant
14.When Ghetto and Prison Meet and Merge
15.Going Straight – Elijah Anderson
16.The Story of a Young Inner-City Ex-Convict
17.Bringing the Individual Back In – Jerome Miller
18.A Commentary on Wacquant and Anderson
19.Imprisonment Rates and the New Politics of Criminal Punishment – Franklin Zimring
20.Unthought Thoughts – Michael Tonry
21.The Influence of Changing Sensibilities on Penal Policies
22.Facts, Values and Prison Policies – James B Jacobs
23.A Commentary on Zimrig and Tonry
24.The Private and the Public in Penal History – Alex Lichtenstein
25.A Commentary on Zimrig and Tonry
26.Epilogue – Alex Garland
27.The New Iron Cage

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