Bringing together new research, this book advances current theoretical understandings of punishment and control in society. It provides a critical analysisof institutions, punishment and the law, and explores the delivery of punishment and experience of incarceration in Western societies from the early-nineteenth century. ÍNDICE: - Notes on the Contributors - List of Abbreviations - Introduction: Histories of Punishment and Control; H.Johnston - PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES - Modernity, the New Republic and Sing Sing: The Creation of a Disciplined Workforce and Citizenry; M.Fiddler - Reconceptualising Social Control: A Case-Study in Gender, Punishment and Murder; A.Ballinger - An Honourable Regimeof Truth? Foucault, Psychiatry and English Criminal Justice; T.Ward - PART II: PENAL POLICY, PRISON PRACTICE AND DISCOURSES ON OFFENDERS - Moral Guardians?Prison Officers, Prison Practice and Ambiguity in the Nineteenth Century; H.Johnston - The Man, the Machine and the Myths: Reconsidering Winston Churchillbs Prison Reforms; J.Bennett - The Paradox of the b Respectable Offenderb : Responding to the Problem of White-collar Crime in Victorian and Edwardian England; J.P.Locker - Controlling the b hopelessb : Re-visioning the History of Female Inebriate Institutions c.1870-1920; B.Morrison - Punishment, Reformation, or Welfare: Resp
- ISBN: 978-0-230-54933-3
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 24/10/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés