Explaining U.S. Imprisonment
- Mary Bosworth - University of Oxford, UK and Monash University, Australia
Other Titles in:
Corrections/Penology | Critical Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice | Prison Studies
Corrections/Penology | Critical Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice | Prison Studies
© 2010 | 304 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Explaining U.S. Imprisonment builds on and extends some of the contemporary issues of women in prison, minorities, and the historical path to modern prisons as well as the social influences on prison reform.
INTRODUCTION
1: THE ORIGINS OF U.S. IMPRISONMENT: BEYOND THE PENITENTIARY
| 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 |
2: PENAL REFORM AND PRISON SCIENCE: ENGINEERING ORDER AND BUILDING AMERICA
| 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 |
3: PRISON CULTURE: SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHANGE
| The Prison Community |
| Importation vs. Deprivation |
| Gender |
| Race |
| Sexuality |
| Research Methods, Governance and Social Control |
| Conclusion: Contextualizing Sociological Accounts of Imprisonment |
4: AN ERA OF UNCERTAINTY: RIOTS, REFORM AND REPRESSION
| Attica |
| Activism Before and After Attica |
| The Administration of Justice |
| The Demise of Rehabilitation |
| Penal Revisionism and Prisoners’ Rights: Theory v. Practice |
| Conclusion |
5: THE PUNITIVE TURN: LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS FOR MASS IMPRISONMENT
| The Reagan Years |
| Legislating Punishment |
| Private Prisons |
| Prison Building and Supermax |
| Challenging Imprisonment in an Era of Punitivism |
| Conclusion |
6: A CULTURE OF CONTROL
| 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 |
7: CHALLENGING THE CULTURE OF CONTROL?
| 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? |
8: THE NEW DETENTION: SECURING THE BORDER
| Context |
| The Law |
| Detaining Immigrants |
| The War on Terror |
| Scholarly Accounts of the War on Terror: A Failure of the Criminological Imagination? |
| Conclusion |
CONCLUSION
good overview for advanced penology course
Law Police Science Dept, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
October 22, 2010
Fits my needs as well as an afordable package with the second book.
Public Service Social Sci Div, Massasoit Community College - Brockton
October 20, 2010
Sample Materials & Chapters
1. The Origins of U.S. Imprisonment
7. Challenging the Culture of Control?
