Explaining U.S. Imprisonment

Mary Bosworth - University of Oxford, UK, Oxford University, UK

Other Titles in:
Corrections/Penology | Critical Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice | Prison Studies

October 2009 | 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

Professor Martin Horn

Law Police Science Dept, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

October 22, 2010

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Fits my needs as well as an afordable package with the second book.

Professor Patrick Faiella

Public Service Social Sci Div, Massasoit Community College - Brockton

October 20, 2010

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1. The Origins of U.S. Imprisonment

7. Challenging the Culture of Control?

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