Explaining U.S. Imprisonment
- Mary Bosworth - University of Oxford, UK and Monash University, Australia
Corrections/Penology | Critical Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice | Prison Studies
Colonial Justice |
The War of Independence (1775-1783) |
Prisons, Slavery and the Antebellum South |
Religious Reform in the North |
The Civil War |
Reconstruction |
Women’s Prison |
Debating Imprisonment |
Conclusion |
Penal Reformism: The National Prison Association |
‘Prison Science’: Reformism and Social Engineering |
The First World War: Conscientious Objectors and Prison |
The Federal Bureau of Prisons |
The Depression: Prisons, Labour and Social Structure |
World War II: Questions of National Security |
Women’s Reformatories |
Reform, Science and Nation-Building |
Conclusion |
The Prison Community |
Importation vs. Deprivation |
Gender |
Race |
Sexuality |
Research Methods, Governance and Social Control |
Conclusion: Contextualizing Sociological Accounts of Imprisonment |
Attica |
Activism Before and After Attica |
The Administration of Justice |
The Demise of Rehabilitation |
Penal Revisionism and Prisoners’ Rights: Theory v. Practice |
Conclusion |
The Reagan Years |
Legislating Punishment |
Private Prisons |
Prison Building and Supermax |
Challenging Imprisonment in an Era of Punitivism |
Conclusion |
Prisons and Politics in the 1990s |
Punishment and Modern Society: Explaining the Culture of Control |
Neo-conservatives, the Culture Wars and Prison |
Managing Prisons |
Experiencing Incarceration and Challenging the Culture of Control |
Conclusion |
Prisons in the Twenty-first Century |
The Costs of Imprisonment: An Emerging Critique |
Prison Conditions and Public Safety |
The Courts: An Alternative Source of Critique |
Hurricane Katrina |
Governing Through Crime |
Opening the Prison: Convict Voices |
Conclusion: Governing Through Imprisonment? |
Context |
The Law |
Detaining Immigrants |
The War on Terror |
Scholarly Accounts of the War on Terror: A Failure of the Criminological Imagination? |
Conclusion |
good overview for advanced penology course
Fits my needs as well as an afordable package with the second book.
Sample Materials & Chapters
1. The Origins of U.S. Imprisonment
7. Challenging the Culture of Control?