`The quite extraordinary phenomenon of mass imprisonment in the USA needs, above all, to be identified. David Garland and his excellent range of criminological contributors go well beyond this by showing how to start thinking (and arguing) about what...
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`The quite extraordinary phenomenon of mass imprisonment in the USA needs, above all, to be identified. David Garland and his excellent range of criminological contributors go well beyond this by showing how to start thinking (and arguing) about what these unprecedented statistics might mean for all modern societies' - Professor Stan Cohen, Department of Sociology, LSE. 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
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Cover ; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction - The meaning of mass imprisonment; 1 - The causes and consequences of prison growth in the United States; 2 - Fear and loathing in late modernity. Reflections on the cultural sources of mass imprisonment in the United States; 3 - Television, public space and prison population. A commentary on Mauer and Simon; 4 - Governing social marginality. Welfare, incarceration, and the transformation of state policy; 5 - The macho penal economy. Mass incarceration in the United States - a European perspective
6 - Novus ordo saeclorum? A commentary on Downes, and on Beckett and Western7 - Deadly symbiosis. When ghetto and prison meet and mesh; 8 - Going straight. The story of a young inner-city ex-convict; 9 - Bringing the individual back in. A commentary on Wacquant and Anderson; 10 - Imprisonment rates and the new politics of criminal punishment; 11 - Unthought thoughts. The influence of changing sensibilities on penal policies; 12 - Facts, values and prison policies. A commentary on Zimring and Tonry; 13 - The private and the public in penal history. A commentary on Zimring and Tonry
