Penology and punishment Books

Book SynopsisFocusing on gubernatorial clemency, furlough, and conjugal visits in states ranging from Mississippi to Massachusetts, Reiko Hillyer examines the origins and decline of practices that allowed incarcerated people to occasionally experience life beyond prison walls.Trade Review“Drawing on meticulous research and amplifying the voices of prisoners and their families and advocates, A Wall Is Just a Wall is materialist history at its best. Reiko Hillyer’s beautifully narrated historical lessons and analyses of the contested sites of clemency, conjugal visitation, and furlough policies spur us to newly imagine the porosity of prison walls and, ultimately, prison abolition as justice long overdue.” -- Sora Y. Han, author of * Letters of the Law: Race and the Fantasy of Colorblindness in American Law *"In this impressive study, historian Hillyer documents the relative openness of American prisons in the early 20th century and the subsequent 'thickening and hardening of prison walls.' . . . This thorough work of historical scholarship draws extensively on inmate newspapers to provide an eye-opening look at the high value prisoners placed on family visits, furlough, and the possibility of clemency, making their cancellation its own form of psychological punishment. Readers concerned by mass incarceration should take note." * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. The Boundaries of Mercy: Clemency, Jim Crow, and Mass Incarceration 1. Clemency in the Age of Jim Crow: Mercy and White Supremacy 27 2. Freedom Struggles: Clemency Hangs in the Balance in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement 46 3. The House of the Dying: The Decline of Clemency under the New Jim Crow 65 Part II. Strange Bedfellows: Conjugal Visits, Belonging, and Social Death 4. Southern Hospitality: The Rise of Conjugal Visits 89 5. “It’s Something We Must Do”: The National Reach of Conjugal Visits 109 6. “Daddy Is in Prison”: The Decline of Conjugal Visits and the Strange Career of Family Values 129 Part III. Weekend Passes: Furloughs and the Risks of Freedom 7. “To Rub Elbows with Freedom”: Temporary Release in the Jim Crow South 13 8. Conquering Prison Walls: Furloughs at the Crossroads of the Rehabilitative Ideal 174 9. The End of Redemption: Willie Horton and Moral Panic 194 Epilogue 213 Notes 229 Bibliography 303 Index 335

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Book SynopsisA journey into the experiences of incarcerated women in rural areas, revealing how location can reinforce gendered violenceIncarceration is all too often depicted as an urban problem, a male problem, a problem that disproportionately affects people of color. This book, however, takes readers to the heart of the struggles of the outlaw women of the rural West, considering how poverty and gendered violence overlap to keep women literally and figuratively imprisoned. Outlaw Women examines the forces that shape women's experiences of incarceration and release from prison in the remote, predominantly white communities that many Americans still think of as the Western frontier. Drawing on dozens of interviews with women in the state of Wyoming who were incarcerated or on parole, the authors provide an in-depth examination of women's perceptions of their lives before, during, and after imprisonment. Considering cultural mores specific to the rural West, the authors identify the forces that coTrade ReviewA unique, readable, lengthy study of female incarceration in the Wyoming women's prison, one of 67 state women's prisons in the US. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisA look at the contemporary crisis in U.S. jails with recommendations for improving and protecting the dignity of inmates Twelve million Americans go through the U.S. jail system on an annual basis. Jails, which differ significantly from prisons, are designed to house inmates for short amounts of time, and are often occupied by large populations of legally innocent people waiting for a trial. Jails often have deplorable sanitary conditions, and there are countless records of inmates being brutalized by staff and other inmates while in custody. Local municipalities use jails to institutionalize those whom they perceive to be a threat, so hundreds of thousands of inmates suffer from mental illness. People abandoned by families or lacking health insurance, or those who cannot afford bail, often cycle in and out of jails. In America's Jails, Derek Jeffreys draws on sociology, philosophy, history, and his personal experience volunteering in jails and prisons to prTrade ReviewAmerica's Jails is a rich and thoughtful book. A powerful condemnation of America's jail system, but more than that, a plea to reset the starting point for reform. Jeffreys' call to bring ethics into the policy debate and to ground change in a shared recognition of the inherent dignity of those incarcerated is a challenge to us all. -- Sharon Shalev,Author of Supermax: Controlling Risk Through Solitary ConfinementIn this groundbreaking book, Derek Jeffreys demonstrates why the inhabitants of Americas troubled jails are endowed with human dignity. Written by a scholar who has deep knowledge of philosophy and of jails, this work makes a unique contribution. -- Michael B. Mushlin,Author of Rights of Prisoners, Fifth EditionJeffreys provides a cogent and highly credible explanation for why American jails are brutal places where humanity is in short order. But it is his argument that all peopleincluding the jailed detaineepossess inalienable inherent dignity that renders his book a powerful and important addition to modern criminal justice scholarship. . . . We must not, urges Jeffreys, accept the assault on human dignity" that takes place every day in our jails and prisons. * New York Journal of Books *This book is simultaneously a study of detention in the Cook County Department of Corrections, Chicago, and an argument for significant reform of ‘systemic issues’ nationwide. Jeffrey focuses on the role of jails in both containing and exacerbating social senses of ‘disgust, contempt, and fear’ such that incarceration produces a ‘stigma that deeply damages the lives of jail inmates and ex-offenders,’ the overwhelming number of whom are locked away for non-violent offenses. -- Spencer Dew, Wittenberg University * Religious Studies Review *Jeffreys’s book allows for a unique, interdisciplinary perspective in understanding American jails and highlights the plight of inmates and considers philosophical questions about human dignity in U.S. jails. It will appeal to a wide range of audiences, including policymakers, lawyers, academics, correctional officers, journalists and medical professionals working within correctional institutions. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *

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Book SynopsisThe fascinating story behind the innocence movement's quest for justice. Documentaries like Making a Murderer, the first season of Serial, and the cause célèbre that was the West Memphis Three captured the attention of millions and focused the national discussion on wrongful convictions. This interest is warranted: more than 1,800 people have been set free in recent decades after being convicted of crimes they did not commit. In response to these exonerations, federal and state governments have passed laws to prevent such injustices; lawyers and police have changed their practices; and advocacy organizations have multiplied across the country. Together, these activities are often referred to as the innocence movement. Exonerated provides the first in-depth look at the history of this movement through interviews with key leaders such as Barry Scheck and Rob Warden as well as archival and field research into the major cases that brought awareness to wrongful convictions in the United STrade Review"[An] informative overview of the development of the innocence movement...A useful contribution to an important national conversation about crime and punishment." * Kirkus Reviews *"Exoneratedis the first complete and authentic history of the innocence movement. Robert J. Norris shows us how it came into being and how it evolved over the decades. He also shines light on the issues involved and the challenges the movement faces. With his unmatched academic credential, Norris has written a book that will benefit both students and experts of innocence movement." * The Washington Book Review *"Exonerated delineates the origin story of the “innocence movement,” a highly publicized pivot in legal circles in the late twentieth century toward the wrongful conviction of innocent persons. Robert J. Norris focuses mostly on the key players involved in the early days of using forensic DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) to exonerate innocents … Exonerated draws on social movements theory to explain in terms of political opportunities for legal reform, local actions of individuals and organizations, and the ways key players framed innocence to bolster its legitimacy." -- The Journal of American History"It (is) a valuable window into the effect of many factors that drive the criminal justice system (race, class, and gender) but not necessarily a means of addressing them. This careful attention to grounding his history makes the book a valuable reference for social scientists, graduate students, and anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of change in the legal system." * International Criminal Justice Review *"This work is readily accessible to most adult audiences, and is especially recommended for all college, university, and seminary libraries." * Catholic Library World *"Robert J. Norris book,Exonerated,is the first complete and exhaustive treatment of the [innocence] movement itself. The book offers a deep dive. The fact that it is nonetheless eminently readable speaks to Norriss ability to merge impressive scholarship and research with fascinating stories, interesting interviews and anecdotal information. The result is an impressive history layered over with entertaining color." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews *"Exonerated is the definitive account of how the innocence movement transformed public views about the everyday fallibility of the American criminal justice system in the late 20th century, and why preventing the wrongful convictions of the factually innocent remains more important than ever in the 21st century." -- Richard A. Leo,author, The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions and the Norfolk Four"Exonerated is the first serious, thorough history of the modern innocence movement. A major, innovative contribution to the scholarship on wrongful convictions and a true delight to read." -- Daniel S. Medwed,author, Prosecution Complex: America’s Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent"A timely and important new contribution to the literature, Exonerated is both an accessible history of the recent history of wrongful convictions, and a much needed analysis of the innocence movement as a social movement." -- Simon A. Cole,author, Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification"Carefully researched and elegantly written, this book calls attention to the importance of wrongful convictions for the death penalty and beyond. It shows how the criminal justice system is at the heart of efforts to achieve social justice. This is an important book." -- Sister Helen Prejean,author, Dead Man Walking and The Death of Innocents

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Book SynopsisThe controversy surrounding community responses to housing for sexually violent predators When a South Carolina couple killed a registered sex offender and his wife after they moved into their neighborhood in 2013, the story exposed an extreme and relatively rare instance of violence against sex offenders. While media accounts would have us believe that vigilantes across the country lie in wait for predators who move into their neighborhoods, responses to sex offenders more often involve collective campaigns that direct outrage toward political and criminal justice systems. No community wants a sex offender in its midst, but instead of vigilantism, Monica Williams argues, citizens often leverage moral, political, and/or legal authority to keep these offenders out of local neighborhoods. Her book, the culmination of four years of research, 70 in-depth interviews, participant observations, and studies of numerous media sources, reveals the origins and characteTrade Review"Monica Williams intervenes in an intense debate over whether litigation or politics is the most effective way to pursue social change and what leads so many social movements to choose courts. By identifying both empowerment and experience as factors that shape these choices, Williams is developing a theoretical approach to rights mobilization that will have plenty of application outside the criminal field...Impressive work" -- Jonathan Simon,Author of Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in A"Readers are invited into community meetings to hear directly from citizens and activists who seek to influence an aspect of public policy that is often ignored: the siting of released sex offenders. Taking nothing for granted, Monica Williams compares three communities in order to show the way social mobilization is shaped by context and orientations to authority. The ethnographic work is truly outstanding and the analysis is keen. The Sex Offender Housing Dilemma is a remarkable account of how communities respond to sex offender placements and should renew scholarly interest in how punishment and democracy play out locally." -- Chrysanthi S. Leon,Author of Sex Fiends, Perverts, and Pedophiles: Understanding Sex Crime Policy in America

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Book SynopsisHow prisons became economic development strategies for rural Appalachian communitiesAs the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to building prisons as a strategy for economic development. More than 350 prisons have been built in the U.S. since 1980, with certain regions of the country accounting for large shares of this dramatic growth. Central Appalachia is one such region; there are eight prisons alone in Eastern Kentucky. If Kentucky were its own country, it would have the seventh highest incarceration rate in the world. In Coal, Cages, Crisis, Judah Schept takes a closer look at this stunning phenomenon, providing insight into prison growth, jail expansion and rising incarceration rates in America's hinterlands. Drawing on interviews, site visits, and archival research, Schept traces recent prison growth in the region to the rapid decline of its coal industry. He takes us inside this startling transformation occurring in the coalfields, whTrade ReviewAgainst the many reductionist, exploitative, and degrading accounts of Appalachia, this book reveals how important it is to understand the region’s drive toward prisons and jails as part of a larger history, geography, and narrative of continuous extraction and structural crisis, one that was never inevitable but socially reproduced through carceral investments. Coal, Cages, Crisis is essential reading in this moment of reckoning, proving our analyses of racial capital in the rural hinterlands is foundational to struggles in the movement against prisons everywhere. -- Michelle Brown, co-author of Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular CultureThrough the churn of extraction and profiteering, disposal and human sacrifice, the mountains of Appalachia have become a kind of national sacrifice zone, home to coal mines, garbage dumps, and cages. Judah Schept’s brilliant book nests rigorously local Appalachian history within the global system of racial capitalism that is devouring the planet. As jails and prisons proliferate across the coalfields, Schept tells us what was there before so we will remember to ask that crucial abolitionist question—what might be there instead? -- Naomi Murakawa, author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison AmericaJudah Schept sketches a fascinating topography of class war and the carceral state in Appalachia. He boldly shifts focus from the criminal policies and physical prisons of the region to the infrastructures of extraction and disposal that have facilitated mass incarceration. This imaginative interdisciplinary study will be a critical resource for scholars and organizers as well as for pundits trying to make sense of Appalachia’s now mythologized ‘white working class.’ -- Christina Heatherton, co-editor of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives MatterCoal, Cages, Crisis is a model of carceral geography that combines investigative journalism, unabashed activism, and multi-layered analysis. Jill Frank’s stark photography illuminates a bleak landscape, while Schept excavates its buried past. -- Tony Platt, author of Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United StatesThe primary insight guiding Coal, Cages, and Crisis is that the carceral facility is part of an ensemble of social relations extending far beyond its walls, in networks of local, state, and federal punishment, the global landscape of commodity exchange, and even the unique historical moment in which it exists. As Schept deftly demonstrates, the site selection, construction, staffing, filling, and subsequent management of prisons and jails is not simply the narrow domain of the misnamed ‘justice system,’ reflecting its needs, nor are prisons and punishment regimes simply deployed in response to changing levels of ‘crime,’ as conservative criminologists argue. Instead, understanding why prisons are built, and filled, requires a close look at local patterns of employment, relations of private property, histories of structural racism, and the political and cultural arenas in which regimes of prison construction and ‘tough on crime’ policies alike are fought out … Time and again, Coal, Cages, Crisis strives to communicate that mass incarceration is not natural or inevitable, and depicts plenty of locals who prove that another way of life is not only possible, but in demand. * The Brooklyn Rail *Drawing on interviews, site visits, and archival research, Schept links prison growth to other sites in the Central Appalachian landscape—coal mines, coal waste, landfills, and incinerators. He concludes that the prison boom has less to do with crime and punishment and much more with the overall extraction, depletion, and waste disposal processes that characterize dominant development strategies for the region. * Law and Social Inquiry *Through this interdisciplinary study of the rural prison boom, Schept provides an invaluable state of the field in carceral and Appalachian studies, using the lens of racial capitalism to interpret the region’s complex identity. He also gives an innovative model for the use of blended oral and archival historical methods to study deep historical processes that manifest in the recent past. * The Journal of Southern History *Prisons have proven to be unsafe and costly to operate and, as a result, many in this region have been closing at a rapid rate.…Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty. -- E. Smith, University of Delaware * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisClear and Frost chart the rise of penal severity in the U.S. and the forces necessary to end itOver the last 40 years, the US penal system has grown at an unprecedented ratefive times larger than in the past and grossly out of scale with the rest of the world. In The Punishment Imperative, eminent criminologists Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost argue that America's move to mass incarceration from the 1960s to the early 2000s was more than just a response to crime or a collection of policies adopted in isolation; it was a grand social experiment. Tracing a wide array of trends related to the criminal justice system, this book charts the rise of penal severity in America and speculates that a variety of forcesfiscal, political, and evidentiaryhave finally come together to bring this great social experiment to an end. The authors stress that while the doubling of the crime rate in the late 1960s represented one of the most pressing social problems at the time, it was instead the way criTrade Review"Criminologists Clear (Imprisoning Communities) and Frost (The Punitive State) offer an accessible study of mass incarceration in the U.S. that is theoretically sophisticated and rich in statistical data . . . . A meticulously organized concluding chapter lays out their proposals with an eye toward reducing sentences and making them more humane for nonviolent offenders. The book merits serious consideration beyond an academic audience." * Publishers Weekly *"This short, efficiently conveyed study cannot delve into all of the ramifications of how to integrate those returning to society, however,The Punishment Imperativeattests to the need for a better way to manage the millions that our nation have, for too long, relegated to simply lock up, forever." * Popmatters *"Backed up by the best science, Todd Clear and Natasha Frost make a compelling case for why the nations forty-year embrace of the punitive spirit has been morally bankrupt and endangered public safety. But this is far more than an exposé of correctional failure. Recognizing that a policy turning point is at hand, Clear and Frost provide a practical blueprint for choosing a different correctional futurecounsel that is wise and should be widely followed." -- Francis Cullen,Distinguished Research Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati"For forty years, the heavy hammer of criminal punishment has been the nation's primary tool for addressing social problems. And when the hammer has failed to fix these problems or does further damage, we've responded by grabbing an even bigger hammer. In The Punishment Imperative, Todd Clear and Natasha Frost convincingly demonstrate that the hammer has, finally, become too heavy for us to raise. They offer a masterful dissection of this 'grand social experiment'; showing how we embarked on this strategy, its costs to individuals and communities, and a clear-headed path to real reform. The Punishment Imperative is neither armchair critique nor utopian vision, but rather an eye-opening and truly authoritative treatment by two true experts on punishment's past, present, and future." -- Christopher Uggen,co-author of Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy"It is too soon to tell if a sea of change is upon the US penal system, but the authors make their cogent argument in this well-written book. Summing Up:Highly recommended." -- P. Horne * Choice *"Part historical study, part forward-looking policy analysis, The Punishment Imperativeis a compelling study of a generation of crime and punishment in America." -- Douglas A. Berman * Sentencing Law and Policy *"This well-documented volume will interest anyone connected to our criminal justice system and may appeal to general readers concerned about the subject of incarceration." -- Frances O. Sandiford * Library Journal *"This compelling narrative helps us better understand the history, trajectory, and complexity of the politics of punishment in the United States over the past four decades. At a time of impending shifts in the correctional landscape in this country, this impressive volume should be on the reading list not only for scholars and students of mass incarceration, but also for corrections practitioners and policymakers everywhere who care about a new vision for America's penal system." -- Laurie O. Robinson,Former Assistant Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice"The book's 200 pages of details and its prescriptions will be intriguing even to those who know the field." * Jotwell *"Clear and Frost have helped start the most important conversation facing criminologists at the moment. How do we substantively reduce prison populations?" * Crime Law Social Change *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Beginning of the End of the Punishment Imperative 2. The Contours of Mass Incarceration 3. The Punishment Imperative as a Grand Social Experiment 4. The Policies of the Punishment Imperative 5. Two Views on the Objectives of the Punishment Imperative 6. Assessing the Punishment Imperative 7. Dismantling the Punishment Imperative Notes References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisThe U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay has become the symbol of an unprecedented detention system of global reach and immense power. Since the 9/11 attacks, the news has on an almost daily basis headlined stories of prisoners held indefinitely at Guantánamo without charge or trial, many of whom have been interrogated in violation of restrictions on torture and other abuse. These individuals, once labeled enemy combatants to eliminate legal restrictions on their treatment, have in numerous instances been subject to lawless renditions between prisons around the world. The lines between law enforcement and military action; crime and war; and the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of power have become dangerously blurred, and it is time to unpack the evolution and trajectory of these detentions to devise policies that restore the rule of law and due process. Obama's Guantánamo: Stories from an Enduring Prison describes President Obama's failure to close America's enduringTrade Review"Obama's Guantanamo...presents 14 essays from lawyers who work behind the scenes in the civilian habeas bar and the military commissions [that] make the case that Obama lost his way more than once when he had the chance to do the right thing, and retreated to the same failed positions of his predecessor." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"An alarming and important indictment of Obama's ineffectual approach to one of his signature campaign issues and of America's tarnished system of justice as a whole." * Kirkus Reviews *"These searing essays on the 'enduring prison' make an impressive follow up to The Guantanamo Lawyers, an earlier collection coedited by Hafetz...This book, from a legal perspective, looks deeply and insightfully into an American institution working in secret in the age of the War on Terror." * Publishers Weekly *"Jonathan Hafetz has done it again with Obama's Guantánamo. Picking up where The Guantánamo Lawyers left off, the book follows the depressing trajectory of the detentions over the course of the Obama administration, a period that began with high ideals and lofty rhetoric but, as chronicled in these stories, degenerated into a tale of Executive Branch irresolution and missed opportunities coupled with 'Guantánamo fatigue' on the part of the Supreme Court. The result was to leave the field to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which turned habeas corpus into a cruel joke, and Congress, which threw endless obstacles in President Obama's path. The precise timing and course of the endgame remains to be seen, although slowly but surely the prison population is dwindling, Spandau-like, to the point that even those most committed to keeping the place open will have to recognize how profligate and indefensible a waste of taxpayer resources it has become. Obama's Guantánamo helps ensure that the stories of the prisoners, their lawyers, and the public officials responsible for this overlong grim saga are remembered long after the doors are shuttered." -- Eugene R. Fidell,Yale University"This collection of essays reveals the many ways in which the Obama administration, Congress, and the courts have all failed the Guantánamo prisoners. Its publication comes at an important time, with just months for President Obama to fulfill his 2009 promise to close the prison for good. Everyone in a position of power and authority in the U.S. should pay attention to what the lawyers have to say." -- Andy Worthington,author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison

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Book SynopsisThe fascinating story behind the innocence movement's quest for justice. Documentaries like Making a Murderer, the first season of Serial, and the cause célèbre that was the West Memphis Three captured the attention of millions and focused the national discussion on wrongful convictions. This interest is warranted: more than 1,800 people have been set free in recent decades after being convicted of crimes they did not commit. In response to these exonerations, federal and state governments have passed laws to prevent such injustices; lawyers and police have changed their practices; and advocacy organizations have multiplied across the country. Together, these activities are often referred to as the innocence movement. Exonerated provides the first in-depth look at the history of this movement through interviews with key leaders such as Barry Scheck and Rob Warden as well as archival and field research into the major cases that brought awareness to wrongful convictions in the United STrade Review"[An] informative overview of the development of the innocence movement...A useful contribution to an important national conversation about crime and punishment." * Kirkus Reviews *"Exoneratedis the first complete and authentic history of the innocence movement. Robert J. Norris shows us how it came into being and how it evolved over the decades. He also shines light on the issues involved and the challenges the movement faces. With his unmatched academic credential, Norris has written a book that will benefit both students and experts of innocence movement." * The Washington Book Review *"Exonerated delineates the origin story of the “innocence movement,” a highly publicized pivot in legal circles in the late twentieth century toward the wrongful conviction of innocent persons. Robert J. Norris focuses mostly on the key players involved in the early days of using forensic DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) to exonerate innocents … Exonerated draws on social movements theory to explain in terms of political opportunities for legal reform, local actions of individuals and organizations, and the ways key players framed innocence to bolster its legitimacy." -- The Journal of American History"It (is) a valuable window into the effect of many factors that drive the criminal justice system (race, class, and gender) but not necessarily a means of addressing them. This careful attention to grounding his history makes the book a valuable reference for social scientists, graduate students, and anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of change in the legal system." * International Criminal Justice Review *"This work is readily accessible to most adult audiences, and is especially recommended for all college, university, and seminary libraries." * Catholic Library World *"Robert J. Norris book,Exonerated,is the first complete and exhaustive treatment of the [innocence] movement itself. The book offers a deep dive. The fact that it is nonetheless eminently readable speaks to Norriss ability to merge impressive scholarship and research with fascinating stories, interesting interviews and anecdotal information. The result is an impressive history layered over with entertaining color." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews *"Exonerated is the definitive account of how the innocence movement transformed public views about the everyday fallibility of the American criminal justice system in the late 20th century, and why preventing the wrongful convictions of the factually innocent remains more important than ever in the 21st century." -- Richard A. Leo,author, The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions and the Norfolk Four"Exonerated is the first serious, thorough history of the modern innocence movement. A major, innovative contribution to the scholarship on wrongful convictions and a true delight to read." -- Daniel S. Medwed,author, Prosecution Complex: America’s Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent"A timely and important new contribution to the literature, Exonerated is both an accessible history of the recent history of wrongful convictions, and a much needed analysis of the innocence movement as a social movement." -- Simon A. Cole,author, Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification"Carefully researched and elegantly written, this book calls attention to the importance of wrongful convictions for the death penalty and beyond. It shows how the criminal justice system is at the heart of efforts to achieve social justice. This is an important book." -- Sister Helen Prejean,author, Dead Man Walking and The Death of Innocents

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Book SynopsisThe controversy surrounding community responses to housing for sexually violent predators When a South Carolina couple killed a registered sex offender and his wife after they moved into their neighborhood in 2013, the story exposed an extreme and relatively rare instance of violence against sex offenders. While media accounts would have us believe that vigilantes across the country lie in wait for predators who move into their neighborhoods, responses to sex offenders more often involve collective campaigns that direct outrage toward political and criminal justice systems. No community wants a sex offender in its midst, but instead of vigilantism, Monica Williams argues, citizens often leverage moral, political, and/or legal authority to keep these offenders out of local neighborhoods. Her book, the culmination of four years of research, 70 in-depth interviews, participant observations, and studies of numerous media sources, reveals the origins and characteristics of community responsTrade Review"Monica Williams intervenes in an intense debate over whether litigation or politics is the most effective way to pursue social change and what leads so many social movements to choose courts. By identifying both empowerment and experience as factors that shape these choices, Williams is developing a theoretical approach to rights mobilization that will have plenty of application outside the criminal field...Impressive work" -- Jonathan Simon,Author of Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in A"Readers are invited into community meetings to hear directly from citizens and activists who seek to influence an aspect of public policy that is often ignored: the siting of released sex offenders. Taking nothing for granted, Monica Williams compares three communities in order to show the way social mobilization is shaped by context and orientations to authority. The ethnographic work is truly outstanding and the analysis is keen. The Sex Offender Housing Dilemma is a remarkable account of how communities respond to sex offender placements and should renew scholarly interest in how punishment and democracy play out locally." -- Chrysanthi S. Leon,Author of Sex Fiends, Perverts, and Pedophiles: Understanding Sex Crime Policy in America

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Book SynopsisEver since Michel Foucault's highly regarded work on prisons and confinement in the 1970s, critical examination of the forerunners to the prison - slavery, serfdom, and colonial confinements - has been rare. However, these institutions inform and participate in many of the same ideologies that the prison enforces.Captivating Subjects is a collection of essays that fills several crucial gaps in the critical examination of the relations between Western state-sanctioned confinement, identity, nation, and literature. Editors Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright have brought together an esteemed group of international scholars to examine nineteenth-century writings by prisoners, slaves, and other captives, tracing some of the continuities among the varieties of captivity and their crucial relationship to post-Enlightenment subjectivities.This volume is the first sustained examination of the ways in which the diverse kinds of confinement intersect with Western ideologies of subje

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Book SynopsisIn The Margin''s 2024 Social Justice Recommendation List In The Incarceration of Native American Women, Carma Corcoran examines the rising number of Native American women being incarcerated in Indian Country. With years of experience as a case management officer, law professor, consultant to tribal defenders’ offices, and workshop leader in prisons, she believes this upward trajectory of incarceration continues largely unacknowledged and untended. She explores how a combination of F. David Peat’s gentle action theory and the Native traditional ways of knowing and being could heal Native American women who are or have been incarcerated. Colonization and the historical trauma of Native American incarceration runs through history, spanning multiple generations and including colonial wartime imprisonment, captivity, Indian removal, and boarding schools. The ongoing ills of childhood abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, and drug and alcohol adTrade Review“This notion of respectful integration of a ‘mainstream’ approach and an Indigenous approach is cutting edge in its possibilities. This book is exceptionally strong and innovative.”—Frank Pommersheim, author of Tribal Justice: Twenty-Five Years as a Tribal Appellate Justice“This first book about incarcerated Indigenous women in more than two decades insists on the importance of tribal knowledge and practices—and illuminates their importance in the areas of justice and healing. It also brings gentle action theory into dialogue with these issues in a manner that is instructive.”—C. Richard King, author of Redskins: Insult and Brand

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Book SynopsisAfter Mao Zedong's Anti-Rightist Campaign of 195758, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to re-education by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labor farm archives, interviews, and memoirs to provide a remarkable look at the suffering and complex psychological world of these banished Beijing intellectuals. Wang's use of newly uncovered Chinese-language sources challenges the concept of the intellectual as renegade martyr, showing how exiles often declared allegiance to the state for self-preservation. While Mao's campaign victimized the banished, many of those same people also turned against their comrades. Wang describes the ways in which the state sought to remold the intellectuals, and he illuminates the strategies the exiles used to deal with camp officials and improve their chances of survival.Trade ReviewA fine piece of scholarly work contributing to knowledge of life within Chinese penal camps. The reading is essential to students and scholars of political banishment, China’s labor reformatory, Chinese intellectuals and the Communist Party, and China studies under Mao in general. * Choice *Wang Ning has presented us with an extremely rich study of beidahuang, and the transparency of his deployment of sources, as well as his acknowledgement of their limits, ensures this book will remain relevant and valuable in the long term.... Given the details he has from such a range of survivors of beidahuang, Wang's book is highly relevant to broader questions of how political prisoners experienced their sentence and life after release, on transitional justice, and on trauma and memory.... The first authoritative work on the topic. * The PRC History Review *Ning Wang's work inspires us to rethink thought and labour reform in China as part of a larger global history that continues to evolve. * Pacific Affairs *Wang's exploration of political exiles in Mao's China incorporates his exhaustive research into a truly beautiful narrative, full of individual voices, that is every bit as raw and moving as Yan's novel. The careful but deeply thoughtful readings of sources—recollections from captives, cadres, and guards, supplemented by official documents—makes Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness indispensable reading for anyone who wants to understand the history of the People's Republic of China (PRC). * Historical Studies in Education *This is a marvelously level-headed book. Until the concluding chapter, Ning Wang is restrained in describing horrors on the individual level and devastation in terms of the impact on the general society. But finally the pulling of punches ends, and we are asked to try to imagine 'the waste of human talent.' * The China journal *Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness turns out to be a piece of scholarship impressively grounded in a serious engagement with original materials. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Anti-Rightist Campaign and Political Labelling 2. Beijing Rightists on the Army Farms of Beidahuang 3. Political Offenders in Xingkaihu Labour Camp 4. Life and Death in Beidahuang 5. Inner Turmoil and Internecine Strife among Political Exiles 6. End without End Conclusion Appendix A: Interview List Appendix B: Note on the Sources and Methodology Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Mettray Penal Colony was a private reformatory without walls, established in France in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents. Foucault linked its opening to the most significant change in the modern status of prisons and now, at last, Stephen Toth takes us behind the gates to show how the institution legitimized France''s repression of criminal youth and added a unique layer to the nation''s carceral system.Drawing on insights from sociology, criminology, critical theory, and social history, Stephen Toth dissects Mettray''s social anatomy, exploring inmates'' experiences. More than 17,000 young men passed through the reformatory before its closure, and Toth situates their struggles within changing conceptions of childhood and adolescence in modern France. Mettray demonstrates that the colony was an ill-conceived project marked by internal contradictions. Its social order was one of subjection and subversion, as officials struggled for order and inmaTrade ReviewMettray is a model for those interested in studying youth incarceration, gender, and sexuality. I anticipate that many graduate classes on modern history, especially the history of gender and sexuality, will adopt this work for discussion in graduate seminars. * Journal of Social History *Mettray undertakes quite an extensive exploration of the rich archive of this significant institution [a] most engaging history. * French History *Toth immerses his reader in a micro-history based on a rich bibliography and, above all, by an exhaustive examination of the archives of the penal colony of Mettray As [he] shows, what began as a resolutely utopian project that emerged from an optimistic representation of juvenile delinquents by reformers in the first half of the nineteenth century was marked by a slow drift towards a strictly authoritarian and punitive model. * International Review of Social History *Stephen A. Toth's beautifully written history of the Mettray agricultural colony for delinquent boys is an exciting, original addition to the history of youth, the history of carceral society, the history of sexuality, and the history of modern France. * European History Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Origins 2. Regime 3. Resistance 4. Discord 5. Maison Paternelle 6. Denouement Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIran's prison system is a foundational institution of Iranian political modernity. The Incarcerated Modern traces the transformation of Iran from a decentralized empire with few imprisoned persons at the turn of the twentieth century into a modern nation-state with over a quarter million prisoners today. In policing the line between "bad criminal" and "good citizen," the carceral system has shaped and reshaped Iranian understandings of citizenship, freedom, and political belonging. Golnar Nikpour explores the interplay between the concrete space of the Iranian prison and the role of prisons in producing new public cultures and political languages in Iran. From prison writings of 1920s leftist prisoners and communiqués of 1950s militant Islamists, to paintings of 1970s revolutionary guerrillas and mapping projects organized by contemporary dissident prisoners, carceral confinement has shaped modern Iranian political movements. Today, mass incarceration is a global phenomenon. The Incarcerated Modern connects Iranian history to transnational carceral histories to illuminate the shared architectures, economies, and techniques of modern punishment. Trade Review"Prisons that purport to isolate from public view nevertheless have a public life, Golnar Nikpour contends in this revelatory study. The Incarcerated Modern's depiction of transnational solidarity and human rights movements attempting to confront carcerality worldwide is acute and indispensable."—Samuel Moyn, Yale University"The Incarcerated Modern tells the story of Iran's transformation from a fading empire into a modern nation-state. Steeped in rich archival research, the book brilliantly unpacks the foundational significance of the carceral system and reveals the paradox of this massive system of surveillance—stabilizing the state while creating the space in which modern political movements came into being. A must read!"—Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Princeton University"The Incarcerated Modern is one of those exceptionally rare, original books that transcends academic disciplines and opens up myriad terrains of inquiry. Golnar Nikpour powerfully and convincingly illustrates how the modern prison is global in scope—linked to colonial histories, nation-states, and global politics."—Shahla Talebi, Arizona State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: On the Significance of the Iranian Prison 1. Lawlessness and Order: The Qajar Roots of Modern Prisons in Iran 2. The Criminal Is the Patient, the Prison Will Be the Cure: Building the Carceral Imagination in Pahlavi Iran 3. Like a Fertile Storm: Prisons and Revolutionary Worldmaking in the Iranian Guerrilla Era 4. The Iranian Prison Goes Global: Iranian Revolutionaries and the International Human Rights Movement 5. Making an Example: Carceral Utopianism and Prison Expansion in Revolutionary Iran 6. Carcerality beyond Prisons?: The Politics of Punishment in the Contemporary Islamic Republic Conclusion: Politics and Prisons beyond Reform Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can we understand the place that the correctional system occupies in contemporary societies? What are the experiences of those who are incarcerated as well as those who work there? To answer these questions, Didier Fassin conducted a four-year-long study in a French short-stay prison, following inmates from their trial to their release. He shows how the widespread use of imprisonment has reinforced social and racial inequalities and how advances in civil rights clash with the rationales and practices used to maintain security and order. He also analyzes the concerns and compromises of the correctional staff, the hardships and resistance of the inmates, and the ways in which life on the inside intersects with life on the outside. In the end, the carceral condition appears to be irreducible to other forms of penalty both because of the chain of privations it entails and because of the experience of meaninglessness it comprises. Examined through ethnographic lenses, prison worlds are thus both a reflection of society and its mirror. At a time when many countries have begun to realize the impasse of mass incarceration and question the consequences of the punitive turn, this book will provide empirical and theoretical tools to reflect on the meaning of punishment in contemporary societies.Trade Review"In his penetrating field study, Didier Fassin introduces English-speaking readers to the social process of incarceration in France, from the courtroom to the prison. Fassin shows how a poor and largely immigrant population becomes entangled in a criminal justice system whose everyday operation reflects and reinforces the contours of social and economic inequality. Remarkable in its range and empirical detail, this is important reading for students of crime, law, and urban life." Bruce Western, Harvard University "Prison Worlds is simply extraordinary. It is at once a philosophy and history of modern prisons and punishment, an ethnography of French male prisoners, a racial and socio-economic theory of incarceration, and a searching meditation on world that locks up so many so cruelly and so thoughtlessly for so little. The narrative is elegant, the stories are searing, and the scholarship is impeccable. Fassin's work will sit next to Foucault's Discipline and Punish as among the most important works on carceral punishment of the past century." Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley"As I read it, I felt that I was going on a long train journey with a wise and chatty French professor: the book is full of vignettes of life and snatches of conversations, all grounded in a huge range of global academic sources."Nicola Padfield, The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice “Prison Worlds is exceptional for both its breadth and exceptionally detailed accounts of everyday life for prisoners and those who work in prisons. Even the title of the book, Prison Worlds, reflects Fassin’s comprehensive approach. Instead of analyzing prison as circumscribed and separate from society, he explicitly connects prisons with the rest of society.”The American Journal of Sociology Table of ContentsPreface to the English Edition Acknowledgements Prologue: Where it all begins "So this case is quite extraordinary!" That driving one's vehicle with a revoked license can lead to prison, and how the carceral world is both a mirror for and a reflection of society. Introduction: The expanding prison A recent invention. That the punitive turn of the late twentieth century has led to a carceral inflation that is presented as justified despite the evidence, and how a study in a short-stay prison can shed light on the consequences. Chapter 1: For whom the cells fill "Put me in solitary!" That contemporary developments in penal policy and practice have precipitated prison overcrowding, and how they reveal a way of dealing with inequalities. Chapter 2: A well-kept public secret "Let’s face it." That the overrepresentation of ethnic and racial minorities in a short-stay prison is rendered invisible, and how disparities in social structures and the penal chain help to explain this. Chapter 3: Ye who enter here "Tell them I'm holding up." That incarceration shock means different things depending on whether one is a judge or correctional staff, and how the prison attempts to mitigate its impact by applying the European Penitentiary Rules. Chapter 4: Life in prison: a user's manual "There shouldn't be all this wasted time here." That imprisonment represents a spatial, temporal and sensorial experience without equivalent, and how each individual strives to cope with the emptiness of prison life. Chapter 5: In the nature of things "It's their way of resisting us." That the usage of the peephole, the circulation of cellphones, and the exchanges of tobacco say a great deal about life in prison, and how everyday objects speak of politics and morality. Chapter 6: A profession in search of honor "I never tell anyone what I do for a living." That prison staff suffer from an undeservedly poor reputation, and how comparison with the world of law enforcement helps better understand the world of the guards. Chapter 7: Violent, all too violent "He's not a bad guy: it’s just he's fed up with being in his cell." That violence between inmates and assaults on staff are less unpredictable than is claimed, and how we can understand the rationales of violence. Chapter 8: Rights, interrupted "The problem is that prisoners have more rights all the time." That the carceral regime is imposed on programs of work, assistance, and education, and how the law in prison does not always guarantee more rights for inmates. Chapter 9: Land of order and security "I've called you in because we're dealing with a serious situation." That the proliferation of security measures contributes to reinforcing the carceral order, and how small adjustments of the rules are nevertheless negotiated day to day. Chapter 10: The never-ending punishment "Before, it was a hearing. Now, it's a proper tribunal." That the thinking behind distribution of sanctions resists advances in disciplinary law, and how some punishments are survivals from the prehistory of prison. Chapter 11: An unfinished business "Prison prepares you for coming back to prison." That the rarity of sentence adjustments leads to unprepared release that fosters recidivism, and how ultimately it is easier to enter prison than to leave. Conclusion: The meaning of prison Research put to the test of time? That the inertia of prison resists attempts to change it, and how the carceral condition, despite being traversed by the reality outside, remains an irreducible fact in terms of meaning and experience. Epilogue: Ethnography regained "To understand something, you have to live it." That research in a carceral environment, and writing about life in prison, involve a particular conception of the social sciences, and how ethnography helps us to understand and lead others to understand the contemporary world. Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisOver the last quarter of a century a new system of global criminal justice has emerged. But how successful has it been? Are we witnessing a new era of cosmopolitan justice or are the old principles of victors’ justice still in play? In this book, Daniele Archibugi and Alice Pease offer a vibrant and thoughtful analysis of the successes and shortcomings of the global justice system from 1945 to the present day. Part I traces the evolution of this system and the cosmopolitan vision enshrined within it. Part II looks at how it has worked in practice, focusing on the trials of some of the world’s most notorious war criminals, including Augusto Pinochet, Slobodan Milošević, Radovan Karadžić, Saddam Hussein and Omar al-Bashir, to assess the efficacy of the new dynamics of international punishment and the extent to which they can operate independently, without the interference of powerful governments and their representatives. Looking to the future, Part III asks how the system’s failings can be addressed. What actions are required for cosmopolitan values to become increasingly embedded in the global justice system in years to come?Trade Review"If you are able to read only one book on international criminal justice let it be Crime and Global Justice. Brilliantly presented, lucidly reasoned, and remarkably balanced, it is certain to be an enduring scholarly contribution."Richard A. Falk, Princeton University "Crime and Global Justice is a really good book. It combines an incredibly useful and readable introduction to the subject, a powerful critique of how it has worked in practice, and a message of hope for the future. A fundamental text for anyone who cares about the prospects for an international rule of law." Mary Kaldor, London School of Economics and Political Science “Both well-written and thorough…A timely reminder that the current international justice regime has not offered a silver bullet for complex political problems.” LSE Review of Books Table of Contents Contents List of tables List of figures List of abbreviations and acronyms Preface and acknowledgements Part I – The Evolution and Purpose of International Criminal Justice 1.Towards a global system of criminal justice? 2.Objectives and reality of international criminal justice 3.Cosmopolitan principles of international criminal justice Part II – International Criminal Justice in Action 4.Universal jurisdiction. The proceedings against Augusto Pinochet 5.Special international tribunals. Slobodan Milo evi and Radovan Karad i in The Hague 6.Winners’ justice. The trial of Saddam Hussein 7.The International Criminal Court in search of a defendant: Omar al-Bashir Part III – The Future for Global Criminal Justice 8.An assessment of global criminal justice 9.What future for international tribunals? 10.Justice from below: What can be done? Epilogue Appendix – Films and Novels on International Criminal Justice References Subject Index

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Book SynopsisOver the last quarter of a century a new system of global criminal justice has emerged. But how successful has it been? Are we witnessing a new era of cosmopolitan justice or are the old principles of victors’ justice still in play? In this book, Daniele Archibugi and Alice Pease offer a vibrant and thoughtful analysis of the successes and shortcomings of the global justice system from 1945 to the present day. Part I traces the evolution of this system and the cosmopolitan vision enshrined within it. Part II looks at how it has worked in practice, focusing on the trials of some of the world’s most notorious war criminals, including Augusto Pinochet, Slobodan Milošević, Radovan Karadžić, Saddam Hussein and Omar al-Bashir, to assess the efficacy of the new dynamics of international punishment and the extent to which they can operate independently, without the interference of powerful governments and their representatives. Looking to the future, Part III asks how the system’s failings can be addressed. What actions are required for cosmopolitan values to become increasingly embedded in the global justice system in years to come?Trade Review"If you are able to read only one book on international criminal justice let it be Crime and Global Justice. Brilliantly presented, lucidly reasoned, and remarkably balanced, it is certain to be an enduring scholarly contribution."Richard A. Falk, Princeton University Crime and Global Justice is a really good book. It combines an incredibly useful and readable introduction to the subject, a powerful critique of how it has worked in practice, and a message of hope for the future. A fundamental text for anyone who cares about the prospects for an international rule of law." Mary Kaldor, London School of Economics and Political Science “Both well-written and thorough…A timely reminder that the current international justice regime has not offered a silver bullet for complex political problems.”LSE Review of BooksTable of Contents Contents List of tables List of figures List of abbreviations and acronyms Preface and acknowledgements Part I – The Evolution and Purpose of International Criminal Justice 1.Towards a global system of criminal justice? 2.Objectives and reality of international criminal justice 3.Cosmopolitan principles of international criminal justice Part II – International Criminal Justice in Action 4.Universal jurisdiction. The proceedings against Augusto Pinochet 5.Special international tribunals. Slobodan Milo evi and Radovan Karad i in The Hague 6.Winners’ justice. The trial of Saddam Hussein 7.The International Criminal Court in search of a defendant: Omar al-Bashir Part III – The Future for Global Criminal Justice 8.An assessment of global criminal justice 9.What future for international tribunals? 10.Justice from below: What can be done? Epilogue Appendix – Films and Novels on International Criminal Justice References Subject Index

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Book SynopsisWhile state and federal prisons like Attica and Alcatraz occupy a central place in the national consciousness, most incarceration in the United States occurs within the walls of local jails. In This Is My Jail, Melanie D. Newport situates the late twentieth-century escalation of mass incarceration in a longer history of racialized, politically repressive jailing. Centering the political actions of people until now overlooked—jailed people, wardens, corrections officers, sheriffs, and the countless community members who battled over the functions and impact of jails—Newport shows how local, grassroots contestation shaped the rise of the carceral state. As ground zero for struggles over criminal justice reform, particularly in the latter half of the twentieth century, jails in Chicago and Cook County were models for jailers and advocates across the nation who aimed to redefine jails as institutions of benevolent transformation. From a slave sale on the jail steps to new jail buildings to electronic monitoring, from therapy to job training, these efforts further criminalized jailed people and diminished their capacity to organize for their civil rights. With prisoners as famous as Al Capone, Dick Gregory, and Harold Washington, and a place in culture ranging from Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle to B. B. King’s Live in Cook County Jail, This Is My Jail places jails at the heart of twentieth-century urban life and politics. As a sweeping history of urban incarceration, This Is My Jail shows that jails are critical sites of urban inequality that sustain the racist actions of the police and judges and exacerbate the harms wrought by housing discrimination, segregated schools, and inaccessible health care. Structured by liberal anti-Blackness and legacies of violence, today’s jails reflect longstanding local commitments to the unfreedom of poor people of color.Trade Review"[M]eticulously documented, tightly argued, and highly readable...This is an essential read for anyone interested in the U.S. carceral state, the failed philosophies and practices of even well-intentioned reforms, and the causes and effects of segregation, discrimination, and exclusion that link homes, schools, police, judges, and juries in the violence of racial repression that is the United States’ criminal injustice system." * Library Journal (starred review) *"Newport has written an essential document of Chicago history that provides context to many of the pressing issues that the city faces today...This Is My Jail demonstrates that it is the abolitionists who are truly fighting for an end to all violence and harm, whether it takes place in society or in jails and prisons. Histories like This Is My Jail are crucial because they connect the struggles of previous decades with those of today." * South Side Weekly *"This Is My Jail is the book we’ve been waiting for. Melanie D. Newport, with her keen historical analysis and considerable skill as a storyteller, offers a page-turning account of the central role that jails play in the rise and expansion of mass incarceration. This is one of few books that takes the jail seriously and is the definitive historical account we’ve needed all along." * Reuben Jonathan Miller, author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration *"Despite the growth of the field of carceral studies over the last decade, we know very little about the history and development of jails in America. Melanie D. Newport fills this glaring gap in her stunning new book. Seamlessly blending social, institutional, and urban history, Newport persuasively argues that jails function as a central, though largely unrecognized, engine of mass incarceration and racial inequality. Ultimately, This is My Jail marks a vital contribution to our understanding of the logics and practices that have systematically placed people of color behind bars in disparate numbers." * Elizabeth Hinton, author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America *"This is the dark, untold history of the Cook County Jail that the Sheriff’s Office would rather keep silent, a long history of racism and violence that festers in the shadows of one of the United States’ most notorious criminal justice systems. Melanie D. Newport’s meticulous research exposes the false promise of a ‘benevolent’ jail and how empty reforms inflict violent punishment with racist intent." * Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, author of Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court *

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Book SynopsisJuvenile Justice and Schools: Policing, Processing, and Programming examines the complex relationship between educational institutions and the juvenile justice system. Readers learn about factors that contribute to juvenile delinquency, how schools can prevent and manage juvenile delinquency, and how individuals can leverage resources other than police or justice systems in response to behavioral concerns.Each chapter examines a specific topic and demonstrates how the topic intersects with school systems and juvenile justice systems. Dedicated chapters explore poverty and its impact on school readiness; the school-to-prison pipeline; racial and gender disproportionality in school discipline practices; and police presence in schools. Students learn about the juvenile justice system, peer mediation as a means to reduce conflicts, strategies for reducing school violence, anti-bullying programs, and more.Juvenile Justice and Schools is an ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate level courses in sociology, criminology, and criminal justice. It can also be used in minor programs in peace studies, education, and juvenile delinquency.

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France’s inhumane treatment of prisoners Founded by Michel Foucault and others in 1970–71, the Prisons Information Group (GIP) circulated information about the inhumane conditions within the French prison system. Intolerable makes available for the first time in English a fully annotated compilation of materials produced by the GIP during its brief but influential existence, including an exclusive new interview with GIP member Hélène Cixous and writings by Gilles Deleuze and Jean Genet. These archival documents—public announcements, manifestos, reports, pamphlets, interventions, press conference statements, interviews, and round table discussions—trace the GIP’s establishment in post-1968 political turmoil, the new models of social activism it pioneered, the prison revolts it supported across France, and the retrospective assessments that followed its denouement. At the same time, Intolerable offers a rich, concrete exploration of Foucault’s concept of resistance, providing a new understanding of the arc of his intellectual development and the genesis of his most influential book, Discipline and Punish.Presenting the account of France’s most vibrant prison resistance movement in its own words and on its own terms, this significant and relevant collection also connects the approach and activities of the GIP to radical prison resistance movements today.Trade Review"The Prisons Information Group was a crucial part of Foucault’s political trajectory, but it was an intensely collaborative project between intellectuals, prisoners, and their families. Expertly translated and introduced, this is the definitive collection of the group’s writings. Although the focus is France, the texts also illuminate other European countries, while the Algerian war opens up questions of colonialism, and the group’s links to the Black Panthers make it important for an understanding of the politics of race. A significant book that is both long overdue and a timely intervention in contemporary debates about police and prison abolition and reform."—Stuart Elden, author of The Early Foucault"Intolerable contributes to incarceration studies by highlighting the contributions (and pointing to the contradictions) of the Prisons Information Group (GIP). By emphasizing the activism of the GIP, it demonstrates how the author and theorist as an academic activist was influenced by the militancy of political actors and revolutionaries who took great risks, especially as incarcerated intellectuals and rebels, to challenge repression structured by racial/colonial capitalism and captivity."—Joy James, author of Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader"Though ‘resistance’ in the Trump Era became more of a brand than a battle plan, it is not hard to see the relevance of the Prisons Information Group to the current movement for prison reform and abolition: lessons of past resistance are always important to the future."—Literary Hub

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Book SynopsisFrom broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday lifePrison Land offers a geographic excavation of the prison as a set of social relations—including property, work, gender, and race—enacted across various landscapes of American life. Prisons, Brett Story shows, are more than just buildings of incarceration bound to cycles of crime and punishment. Instead, she investigates the production of carceral power at a range of sites, from buses to coalfields and from blighted cities to urban financial hubs, to demonstrate how the organization of carceral space is ideologically and materially grounded in racial capitalism.Story’s critically acclaimed film The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is based on the same research that informs this book. In both, Story takes an expansive view of what constitutes contemporary carceral space, interrogating the ways in which racial capitalism is reproduced and for which police technologies of containment and control are employed. By framing the prison as a set of social relations, Prison Land forces us to confront the production of new carceral forms that go well beyond the prison system. In doing so, it profoundly undermines both conventional ideas of prisons as logical responses to the problem of crime and attachment to punishment as the relevant measure of a transformed criminal justice system.

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Book SynopsisA critical investigation into the use of psychotropic drugs to pacify and control inmates and other captives in the vast U.S. prison, military, and welfare systemsFor at least four decades, U.S. prisons and jails have aggressively turned to psychotropic drugs—antidepressants, antipsychotics, sedatives, and tranquilizers—to silence inmates, whether or not they have been diagnosed with mental illnesses. In Silent Cells, Anthony Ryan Hatch demonstrates that the pervasive use of psychotropic drugs has not only defined and enabled mass incarceration but has also become central to other forms of captivity, including foster homes, military and immigrant detention centers, and nursing homes. Silent Cells shows how, in shockingly large numbers, federal, state, and local governments and government-authorized private agencies pacify people with drugs, uncovering patterns of institutional violence that threaten basic human and civil rights. Drawing on publicly available records, Hatch unearths the coercive ways that psychotropics serve to manufacture compliance and docility, practices hidden behind layers of state secrecy, medical complicity, and corporate profiteering.Psychotropics, Hatch shows, are integral to “technocorrectional” policies devised to minimize public costs and increase the private profitability of mass captivity while guaranteeing public safety and national security. This broad indictment of psychotropics is therefore animated by a radical counterfactual question: would incarceration on the scale practiced in the United States even be possible without psychotropics?Trade Review"For residents of state-managed institutions, the American Dream too often has been warped into a drug-addled nightmare. Combining novel insights supported by rigorous scholarship with fresh, accessible writing, Anthony Ryan Hatch presents a powerful indictment of imposing psychotropics upon the caged powerless, building an unimpugnable case that unveils a deeply troubling pattern and also affords us the chance to end it."—Harriet A. Washington, author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present "Silent Cells is a ground-breaking study of psychiatric violence in U.S. prisons—not as an exception to the rule, but as a normalized practice of prison management without which mass incarceration would be impossible to sustain. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the material conditions of the U.S. carceral state."—Lisa Guenther, author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives"Hatch champions a more recent neologism: necropolitics, a system for managing the socially dead." —Inside Higher Education

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Book SynopsisA critical investigation into the use of psychotropic drugs to pacify and control inmates and other captives in the vast U.S. prison, military, and welfare systemsFor at least four decades, U.S. prisons and jails have aggressively turned to psychotropic drugs—antidepressants, antipsychotics, sedatives, and tranquilizers—to silence inmates, whether or not they have been diagnosed with mental illnesses. In Silent Cells, Anthony Ryan Hatch demonstrates that the pervasive use of psychotropic drugs has not only defined and enabled mass incarceration but has also become central to other forms of captivity, including foster homes, military and immigrant detention centers, and nursing homes. Silent Cells shows how, in shockingly large numbers, federal, state, and local governments and government-authorized private agencies pacify people with drugs, uncovering patterns of institutional violence that threaten basic human and civil rights. Drawing on publicly available records, Hatch unearths the coercive ways that psychotropics serve to manufacture compliance and docility, practices hidden behind layers of state secrecy, medical complicity, and corporate profiteering.Psychotropics, Hatch shows, are integral to “technocorrectional” policies devised to minimize public costs and increase the private profitability of mass captivity while guaranteeing public safety and national security. This broad indictment of psychotropics is therefore animated by a radical counterfactual question: would incarceration on the scale practiced in the United States even be possible without psychotropics?Trade Review"For residents of state-managed institutions, the American Dream too often has been warped into a drug-addled nightmare. Combining novel insights supported by rigorous scholarship with fresh, accessible writing, Anthony Ryan Hatch presents a powerful indictment of imposing psychotropics upon the caged powerless, building an unimpugnable case that unveils a deeply troubling pattern and also affords us the chance to end it."—Harriet A. Washington, author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present "Silent Cells is a ground-breaking study of psychiatric violence in U.S. prisons—not as an exception to the rule, but as a normalized practice of prison management without which mass incarceration would be impossible to sustain. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the material conditions of the U.S. carceral state."—Lisa Guenther, author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives"Hatch champions a more recent neologism: necropolitics, a system for managing the socially dead." —Inside Higher Education

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Book SynopsisTracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that law enforcement agencies have access to more than 100 million names stored in criminal history databases. In some cities, 80 percent of the black male population is registered in these databases. Digitize and Punish explores the long history of digital computing and criminal justice, revealing how big tech, computer scientists, university researchers, and state actors have digitized carceral governance over the past forty years—with devastating impact on poor communities of color.Providing a comprehensive study of the use of digital technology in American criminal justice, Brian Jefferson shows how the technology has expanded the wars on crime and drugs, enabling our current state of mass incarceration and further entrenching the nation’s racialized policing and punishment. After examining how the criminal justice system conceptualized the benefits of computers to surveil criminalized populations, Jefferson focuses on New York City and Chicago to provide a grounded account of the deployment of digital computing in urban police departments.By highlighting the intersection of policing and punishment with big data and web technology—resulting in the development of the criminal justice system’s latest tool, crime data centers—Digitize and Punish makes clear the extent to which digital technologies have transformed and intensified the nature of carceral power.Trade Review"Digitize and Punish is pathbreaking. It is an example of what interdisciplinary training and spatial thinking should be. Brian Jefferson’s powerful analysis is laid out with surgical detail, illuminating the profound crisis ‘digital prisons’ have for all of us. It also accomplishes a rare scholarly feat: it’s written with crisp and, at times, witty prose. Read. This. Book."—Rashad Shabazz, author of Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago"Digitize and Punish is both a meticulous history of ‘policing and punishing machines’ in New York City and Chicago and a moving call to abolish them everywhere and forever. Resisting the twin drumbeat narratives of disruption and placelessness, Brian Jefferson skillfully traces how the digital carceral state is rooted in and sustained by racial capitalism, with harrowing consequences for poor communities of color."—Virginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor"A haunting discourse."—CHOICE"The book makes a highly relevant contribution to contemporary criminal justice literature."—Ethnic and Racial Studies "A sharp and specific look at how policing molded our digital and physical worlds."—Wired"Brian Jefferson’s Digitize and Punish lays out its argument with clarity and purposeful precision, and is remarkably timely in light of national conversations about policing."—Lateral Journal "Digitize and Punish should be required reading for anyone interested in GIScience, big data, and digital geographies, let alone those in the discipline calling out traditions of exploitation and “discovery” at the heart of our geographical endeavors."—The Canadian Geographer "The overwhelming value of this book is its meticulous historical research and rich description spanning primarily from the 1960s to 2020 that ultimately provides an excellent foundation for researchers analyzing developments in the area of digitized discrimination of negatively racialized populations within the United States criminal justice system in 2021 and onward."—Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books Table of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: NextGen Nightmare1. Criminalization and Computation2. Computerizing the Carceral State3. A Fully Automated Police Apparatus4. Punishment in the Network Form5. How to Program a Carceral CityConclusion: Viral AbolitionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that law enforcement agencies have access to more than 100 million names stored in criminal history databases. In some cities, 80 percent of the black male population is registered in these databases. Digitize and Punish explores the long history of digital computing and criminal justice, revealing how big tech, computer scientists, university researchers, and state actors have digitized carceral governance over the past forty years—with devastating impact on poor communities of color.Providing a comprehensive study of the use of digital technology in American criminal justice, Brian Jefferson shows how the technology has expanded the wars on crime and drugs, enabling our current state of mass incarceration and further entrenching the nation’s racialized policing and punishment. After examining how the criminal justice system conceptualized the benefits of computers to surveil criminalized populations, Jefferson focuses on New York City and Chicago to provide a grounded account of the deployment of digital computing in urban police departments.By highlighting the intersection of policing and punishment with big data and web technology—resulting in the development of the criminal justice system’s latest tool, crime data centers—Digitize and Punish makes clear the extent to which digital technologies have transformed and intensified the nature of carceral power.Trade Review"Digitize and Punish is pathbreaking. It is an example of what interdisciplinary training and spatial thinking should be. Brian Jefferson’s powerful analysis is laid out with surgical detail, illuminating the profound crisis ‘digital prisons’ have for all of us. It also accomplishes a rare scholarly feat: it’s written with crisp and, at times, witty prose. Read. This. Book."—Rashad Shabazz, author of Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago"Digitize and Punish is both a meticulous history of ‘policing and punishing machines’ in New York City and Chicago and a moving call to abolish them everywhere and forever. Resisting the twin drumbeat narratives of disruption and placelessness, Brian Jefferson skillfully traces how the digital carceral state is rooted in and sustained by racial capitalism, with harrowing consequences for poor communities of color."—Virginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor"A haunting discourse."—CHOICE"The book makes a highly relevant contribution to contemporary criminal justice literature."—Ethnic and Racial Studies "A sharp and specific look at how policing molded our digital and physical worlds."—Wired"Brian Jefferson’s Digitize and Punish lays out its argument with clarity and purposeful precision, and is remarkably timely in light of national conversations about policing."—Lateral Journal "Digitize and Punish should be required reading for anyone interested in GIScience, big data, and digital geographies, let alone those in the discipline calling out traditions of exploitation and “discovery” at the heart of our geographical endeavors."—The Canadian Geographer "The overwhelming value of this book is its meticulous historical research and rich description spanning primarily from the 1960s to 2020 that ultimately provides an excellent foundation for researchers analyzing developments in the area of digitized discrimination of negatively racialized populations within the United States criminal justice system in 2021 and onward."—Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books Table of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: NextGen Nightmare1. Criminalization and Computation2. Computerizing the Carceral State3. A Fully Automated Police Apparatus4. Punishment in the Network Form5. How to Program a Carceral CityConclusion: Viral AbolitionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe first English translation of letters of arrest from eighteenth century France held in the archives of the Bastille Drunken and debauched husbands; libertine wives; vagabonding children. These and many more are the subjects of requests for confinement written to the king of France in the eighteenth century. These letters of arrest (lettres de cachet) from France’s Ancien Régime were often associated with excessive royal power and seen as a way for the king to imprison political opponents. In Disorderly Families, first published in French in 1982, Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault collect ninety-four letters from ordinary families who, with the help of hired scribes, submitted complaints to the king to intervene and resolve their family disputes. Gathered together, these letters show something other than the exercise of arbitrary royal power, and offer unusual insight into the infamies of daily life. From these letters come stories of divorce and marital conflict, sexual waywardness, reckless extravagance, and abandonment. The letters evoke a fluid social space in which life in the home and on the street was regulated by the rhythms of relations between husbands and wives, or parents and children. Most impressively, these letters outline how ordinary people seized the mechanisms of power to address the king and make demands in the name of an emerging civil order. Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault were fascinated by the letters’ explosive qualities and by how they both illustrated and intervened in the workings of power and governmentality. Disorderly Families sheds light on Foucault’s conception of political agency and his commitment to theorizing how ordinary lives come to be touched by power. This first English translation is complete with an introduction from the book’s editor, Nancy Luxon, as well as notes that contextualize the original 1982 publication and eighteenth-century policing practices. Trade Review"Expertly edited, this thoughtful translation of Disorderly Families adds a central pillar to the English archive of Michel Foucault’s work. A source of fascination for him since at least the 1950s, the Bastille lettres de cachets deeply influenced and shaped his analysis of power. As he discovered, these letters were what he and Arlette Farge would call a ‘popular practice,’ demanded from below, and not an arbitrary exercise of monarchical power—and they would become a key building block for Foucault’s theory of power-knowledge. This exceptional English translation gives life to Foucault’s—and Farge’s—subversive desire to breathe life into these beautiful, infamous, and obscure lives."—Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia University"An enlightening compilation that will leave historically inclined readers wanting to dig a little further into the archives."—Kirkus Reviews"Thirty-five years on, the study of obscure individual lives has become a valued feature of historical research and the source of new perspectives in the understanding of social and political contexts. [But quite apart from this change in the attitude of historians], the letters themselves seem to have aged better than the intellectual disagreements and academic disputes that accompanied their original publication."—Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsContents Translator’s Preface Editor’s Introduction Presentation The King’s Orders At the Family’s Request 1728–1758: A Survey 1. Marital Discord Putting and End to One’s Misery The Pact Broken Debauch: Masculine Spaces, Feminine Spaces The Gaze of Others The Imprisonment Obtained or the Beginning of a Story Obscure “Police Clarifications” The Singular Status of Repentance Documents 1. Marital Discord Households in Ruin The Imprisonment of Wives The Debauch of Husbands The Tale of a Request 2. Parents and Children Conflicts of Interest Disturbance “Conflicts at the Threshold” Departure for the Islands The Honor of Families Parental Ethics Documents 2. Parents and Children The Disruption of Affairs Shameful Concubinage The Dishonor of Waywardness Domestic Violence Bad Apprentices Exiles Family Honor The Parental Ethos of 1728: The Importance of Sentiment The Parental Ethos of 1758: The Duty to Educate 3. When Addressing the King From Use to Abuse Representation and Secrecy The End of Lettres de Cachet Afterword Arlette Farge Notes Index to Names Index to Places

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Book SynopsisThis distinctive and engaging book proposes an imaginative criminology, focusing on how spaces of transgression are lived, portrayed and imagined. These include spaces of control or confinement, including prison and borders, and spaces of resistance. Examples range from camps where asylum seekers and migrants are confined, to the exploration of deviant identities and the imagined spaces of surveillance and control in young adult fiction. Drawing on oral history, fictive portrayals, walking methodologies, and ethnographic and arts-based research, the book pays attention to issues of gender, sexuality, age, ethnicity, mobility and nationality as they intersect with lived and imagined space.Trade Review''This is much more than a `methodology book’; it re-imagines what criminology might be. I already want to re-read... A book to inspire the novice and long-time criminologist in equal measure.'' Jennifer Fleetwood, Goldsmiths, University of London Jennifer Fleetwood, Goldsmiths, University of London.''Dazzling in its methodological, conceptual and theoretical scope, the authors provide a compelling critical contribution to criminological analyses of time, space and place. This book is testament to the fact that criminology can be imaginative!'' Yvonne Jewkes, University of BathTable of ContentsImaginative Criminologies of Space - the spaces of imaginative criminology; Historical Spaces of Confinement 1: Homes for Indigenous Children in Australia; Historical Spaces of Confinement 2: Magdalene Laundries; Creative writing and the imagined spaces of imprisonment; Border Spaces and Places: the age of the camps; Imagining spaces of violence and transgression in Vancouver and Northern Ireland; Imagining Dystopian Futures in Young Adult Fiction; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis distinctive and engaging book proposes an imaginative criminology, focusing on how spaces of transgression are lived, portrayed and imagined. These include spaces of control or confinement, including prison and borders, and spaces of resistance. Examples range from camps where asylum seekers and migrants are confined, to the exploration of deviant identities and the imagined spaces of surveillance and control in young adult fiction. Drawing on oral history, fictive portrayals, walking methodologies, and ethnographic and arts-based research, the book pays attention to issues of gender, sexuality, age, ethnicity, mobility and nationality as they intersect with lived and imagined space.Table of ContentsImaginative Criminologies of Space - the spaces of imaginative criminology; Historical Spaces of Confinement 1: Homes for Indigenous Children in Australia; Historical Spaces of Confinement 2: Magdalene Laundries; Creative writing and the imagined spaces of imprisonment; Border Spaces and Places: the age of the camps; Imagining spaces of violence and transgression in Vancouver and Northern Ireland; Imagining Dystopian Futures in Young Adult Fiction; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on criminology, philosophy and theology, this book develops a theory of ‘redemptive criminology’ for practice in criminal justice settings. The therapeutic impulse for the text is a focus on the individual practitioner’s ability to embrace difference with the other, to resist harsh penal measures and to bring about change from ‘the bottom up’. By challenging concepts and practices of rehabilitation, the authors argue for the possibility of redemption and for forgiveness as the starting point. Using real-life examples and an interpretative approach, the book explores the connections between victims, perpetrators and the community. The text articulates challenges for the justice system and offers new insights into punishment and retribution.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Immanence and Spaces of Possibility 3. The Dynamics of Forgiveness 4. Apprehending the Victim 5. Gifting Repentance 6. Actualization 7. The Redemptive Practitioner 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn this enlightening study, Ian Cummins traces changing attitudes to penal and welfare systems. From Margaret Thatcher’s first cabinet, to austerity politics via New Labour, the book reveals the ideological shifts that have led successive governments to reinforce their penal powers. It shows how ‘tough on crime’ messages have spread to other areas of social policy, fostering the neoliberal political economy, encouraging hostile approaches to the social state and creating stigma for those living in poverty. This is an important addition to the debate around the complex and interconnected issues of welfare and punishment.Table of ContentsIntroduction Thatcherism and its Legacy Welfare and Punishment in a ‘Stark Utopia’ (1979– 2015) Contemporary Narratives of Mass Incarceration Exploring the Punitive Turn The Third Way in Welfare and Penal Policy New Labour, New Realism? Austerity and the Big Society Conclusion: Citizenship and the Centaur State

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Book SynopsisIn this enlightening study, Ian Cummins traces changing attitudes to penal and welfare systems. From Margaret Thatcher’s first cabinet, to austerity politics via New Labour, the book reveals the ideological shifts that have led successive governments to reinforce their penal powers. It shows how ‘tough on crime’ messages have spread to other areas of social policy, fostering the neoliberal political economy, encouraging hostile approaches to the social state and creating stigma for those living in poverty. This is an important addition to the debate around the complex and interconnected issues of welfare and punishment.Table of ContentsIntroduction Thatcherism and its Legacy Welfare and Punishment in a ‘Stark Utopia’ (1979– 2015) Contemporary Narratives of Mass Incarceration Exploring the Punitive Turn The Third Way in Welfare and Penal Policy New Labour, New Realism? Austerity and the Big Society Conclusion: Citizenship and the Centaur State

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Book SynopsisWe now live in a pre-crime society, in which information technology strategies and techniques such as predictive policing, actuarial justice and surveillance penology are used to achieve hyper-securitization. However, such securitization comes at a cost – the criminalization of everyday life is guaranteed, justice functions as an algorithmic industry and punishment is administered through dataveillance regimes. This pioneering book explores relevant theories, developing technologies and institutional practices and explains how the pre-crime society operates in the ‘ultramodern’ age of digital reality construction. Reviewing pre-crime's cultural and political effects, the authors propose new directions in crime control policy.Table of ContentsForeword - Ian Warren Introduction: The Ultramodern Age of Criminology, Control Societies, and 'Dividual' Justice Policy - Bruce Arrigo, Brian Sellers and Faith Butta Part 1: Theories, Theorists and Theoretical Perspectives 1. The 'Risk' Society Thesis and the Culture(s) of Crime Control - Bruce Arrigo and Brian Sellers 2. The Security Society: On Power, Surveillance, and Punishments - Marc Schuilenburg 3. Pre-Crime and 'Control Society’: Mass Preventive Justice and the Jurisprudence of Safety - Pat O’Malley and Gavin Smith 4. The Negation of Innocence: Terrorism and the State of Exception - David Polizzi Part 2: Institutions, Organizations and the Surveillance Industrial Complex 5. Visions of the Pre-Criminal Student: Reimagining School Digital Surveillance - Andrew Hope 6. Commodification of Suffering - Matthew Draper, Lisa Petot and Brett Breton 7. Surveillance, Substance Misuse and the Drug Use Industry - Aaron Pycroft 8. The Politics of Actuarial Justice and Risk Assessment - Andrew Day and Armon Tamatea Part 3: Dataveillance, Governance and Policing Control Societies 9. Cameras and Police Dataveillance: A New Era in Policing - Janne Gaub and Marthinus Koen 10. Theorizing Surveillance in the Pre-Crime Society - Michael McCahill 11. Dataveillance and the Dividuated Self: The Everyday Digital Surveillance of Young People - Clare Southerton and Emmeline Taylor 12. The Bad Guys Are Everywhere, the Good Guys Are Somewhere - John Deukmedjian Part 4: Systems of Surveillance, Discipline and the New Penology 13. Supermax Prison Isolation in Pre-Crime Society - Terry Kupers 14. Mass Monitoring: The Role of Big Data in Tracking Individuals Convicted of Sex Crimes - Kristen Budd and Christina Mancini 15. Towards Predictivity? Immediacy and Imminence in the Electronic Monitoring of Offenders ~ Mike Nellis 16. The Digital Technologies of Rehabilitation and Reentry - Bianca C. Reisdorf and Julia R. DeCook Part 5: Globalizing Surveillance, Human Rights and (In)Security 17. Surveilling the Civil Death of the Criminal Class - Natalie Deckard 18. Big Data, Cyber Security and Liberty - Jin Ree Lee and Thomas Holt 19. Drone Justice: Kill, Surveil, Govern - Birgit Schippers 20. Global Surveillance: The Emerging Role of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology - Brian Sellers Afterword: 'Pre-Crime' Technologies and the Myth of Race Neutrality - Pamela Ugwudike

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Book SynopsisAt a time when criminal justice systems appear to be in a permanent state of crisis, leading scholars from criminology and theology come together to challenge criminal justice orthodoxy by questioning the dominance of retributive punishment. This timely and unique contribution considers alternatives that draw on Christian ideas of hope, mercy and restoration. Promoting cross-disciplinary learning, the book will be of interest to academics and students of criminology, socio-legal studies, legal philosophy, public theology and religious studies, as well as practitioners and policy makers.Table of ContentsForeword ~ Shadd Maruna Introduction: Public Criminology Meets Public Theology ~ Andrew Millie PART I A Place for Hope: Criminology Meets Public Theology Criminal Justice and the Ethics of Jesus ~ Anthony Bottoms Three Intersections in Criminology and Public Theology ~ Jonathan Burnside St Paul among the Criminologists ~ Aaron Pycroft Interpreting the Cross: Religion, Structures of Feeling, and Penal Theory and Practice ~ Tim Gorringe Sin, Shame and Atonement: A Challenge for Secular Redemption ~ Christopher D. Marshall Criminology, Public Theology and Hope ~ Andrew Millie PART II Criminal Justice, Mercy and Restoration Mercy Triumphs over Judgement: Intrusive or Enabling Mercy? ~ Richard Bourne The ‘Quality of Mercy’ in Probation Practice ~ Lol Burke Loving the Neighbourhood, Loving Enemies: Towards a Theology for (and from) Policing ~ Alistair McFadyen Persecuting the Prophets: Inequality, Insanity and Incarceration ~ Andrew Skotnicki The Ins and Outs of Signals of Forgiveness in Restorative Justice ~ Joanna Shapland The Restorative Gaze ~ Eric Stoddart Conclusions ~ Andrew Millie

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Book SynopsisBrings together a wide range of feminist research focused on women’s lived experiences and centred on their own narratives. Drawing on expertise in contemporary fields of study, using cutting-edge participatory, inclusive and narrative methodologies, the book updates Carlen’s pioneering work for current times.Table of ContentsForeword – Pat Carlen Introduction – Sharon Grace, Maggie O’Neill, Tammi Walker, Hannah King, Lucy Baldwin, Alison Jobe, Orla Lynch, Fiona Measham, Kate O’Brien and Vicky Seaman 1. Hearing the Voices of Women Involved in Drugs and Crime – Sharon Grace 2. Knifing Off? The Inadequacies of Desistance Frameworks for Women in the Criminal Justice System in Ireland – Vicky Seaman and Orla Lynch 3. Sex Work, Criminalisation and Stigma: Towards a Feminist Criminological Imagination – Maggie O’Neill and Alison Jobe 4. Criminal Women in Prison Who Self-harm: What Can We Learn from Their Experiences? – Tammi Walker 5. Criminal Mothers: The Persisting Pains of Maternal Imprisonment – Lucy Baldwin, with Mary Elwood and Cassie Brown 6. ‘The World Split Open’: Writing, Teaching and Learning with Women in Prison – Hannah King, Kate O’Brien and Fiona Measham, with Verity-Fee, Phoenix, Iris and Angel 7. Women’s Biographies through Prison – Verity-Fee, Phoenix, Iris and Angel, with Hannah King, Kate O’Brien and Fiona Measham Afterword – Loraine Gelsthorpe

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Book SynopsisThe UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty detailed many children’s poor experiences in detention, highlighting the urgent need for reform. Applying a child-centred model of detention that fulfils the rights of the child under the five themes of provision, protection, participation, preparation and partnership, this original book illustrates how reform can happen. Drawing on Ireland’s experience of transforming law, policy and practice, and combining theory with real-life experiences, this compelling book demonstrates how children’s rights can be implemented in detention. This important case study of reform presents a powerful argument for a progressive, rights-based approach to child detention. Worthy of international application, the book shares practical insights into how theory can be translated into practice.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Children’s Rights in Detention 2 An International Perspective 3 Irish Youth Justice Law and Policy 4 Introducing Child Detention in Ireland 5 Oberstown and the Process of Change 6 Implementing Children’s Rights in Detention 7 Children’s Rights to Protection from Harm 8 Staff Wellbeing and Communication 9 International and National Influences and Advocacy 10 Reflections: Enablers and Barriers to Reform

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Book SynopsisThe UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty detailed many children’s poor experiences in detention, highlighting the urgent need for reform. Applying a child-centred model of detention that fulfils the rights of the child under the five themes of provision, protection, participation, preparation and partnership, this original book illustrates how reform can happen. Drawing on Ireland’s experience of transforming law, policy and practice, and combining theory with real-life experiences, this compelling book demonstrates how children’s rights can be implemented in detention. This important case study of reform presents a powerful argument for a progressive, rights-based approach to child detention. Worthy of international application, the book shares practical insights into how theory can be translated into practice.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Children’s Rights in Detention 2 An International Perspective 3 Irish Youth Justice Law and Policy 4 Introducing Child Detention in Ireland 5 Oberstown and the Process of Change 6 Implementing Children’s Rights in Detention 7 Children’s Rights to Protection from Harm 8 Staff Wellbeing and Communication 9 International and National Influences and Advocacy 10 Reflections: Enablers and Barriers to Reform

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Book SynopsisExecuting Democracy: Capital Punishment & the Making of America, 1683-1807 is the first volume of a rhetorical history of public debates about crime, violence, and capital punishment in America. This examination begins in 1683, when William Penn first struggled to govern the rowdy indentured servants of Philadelphia, and continues up until 1807, when the Federalists sought to impose law-and-order upon the New Republic. This volume offers a lively historical overview of how crime, violence, and capital punishment influenced the settling of the New World, the American Revolution, and the frantic post-war political scrambling to establish norms that would govern the new republic. By presenting a macro-historical overview, and by filling the arguments with voices from different political camps and communicative genres, Hartnett provides readers with fresh perspectives for understanding the centrality of public debates about capital punishment to the history of American democracy.

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Book SynopsisA two-person memoir that explores education, prison, possibility, and which children our world nurtures and which it shuns. At the books core are two stories that speak up for human imagination, spirit, and the power of art. "A boy with no one to listen becomes a man in prison for life and discovers his mind can be free. A woman enters prison to teach and becomes his first listener. And so begins a twenty-five year friendship between two gifted writers and poets. The result is By Heart a book that will anger you, give you hope, and break your heart." - Gloria Steinem Judith Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson met at San Quentin State Prison in 1985. For over two decades they have conferred, corresponded and sometimes collaborated, producing very different bodies of work resting on the same understanding: that human beings have one foot in darkness, the other in light. In this beautifully crafted exploration, part memoir, part essay, Tannenbaum and Jackson consider art, education, prison, possibility, and which children our world nurtures and which it shuns. At the book's core are two stories that speak for human imagination, spirit, and expression. Judith Tannenbaum is a nationally respected educator, speaker, and author. Among her books are the memoir, Disguised as a Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin; two books for teachers: Teeth, Wiggly as Earthquakes: Writing Poetry in the Primary Grades and (with Valerie Chow Bush) Jump Write In! Creative Writing Exercises for Diverse Communities, Grades 6-12; and six poetry collections. She currently serves as training coordinator with WritersCorps in San Francisco. Born into a family of fifteen boys in Barstow, California, Spoon Jackson was sentenced to Life Without Possibility of Parole when he was twenty years old. Spoon discovered himself as a writer at San Quentin; played Pozzo in the prison's 1988 production of Waiting for Godot; and has written, published, and received awards for plays, poetry, novels, fairy tales, short stories, essays, and memoir during the more than thirty years he has been behind bars. His poems are collected in Longer Ago.Trade Review""Like all good books, By Heart disrupts our assumptions, causes us to question our preconceptions, and reminds us of a commonly held humanity that is always the subject of Art, the engine of Love and should be the only authority of Justice."" -- LJ Moore * The Examiner *""When two poets write a memoir, it has a vividness, substantiality and eloquence that set it apart. Unlike many contemporary memoirs which focus on a capital P Problem, "By Heart" includes the authors' suffering without trying to market it or glamorize it. Much of "By Heart" is about the way that writers become writers. Although their backgrounds and life circumstances are immensely different, both Judith and Spoon are observant, solitary, attentive to nature and its lack."" -- Ruth Gendler * Head Butler *""By Heart is a moving encounter between freedom and prison, art, beauty and desolation, silence and voice ... It is passionate and tender, raw and realistic ... It is a love story but not love between people; it is about love for ourselves and our humanity. This is a book that I would wish for every educator to read."" * The Book Nook *""There's a crooked symmetry in this remarkable book: poetry and teaching rescued Tannenbaum, and prison provided her with the lifeline of a writing community; poetry also awakened Jackson, but for him it was a counterforce to prison's destructive power."" -- Bell Gale Chevigny * emerita professor of literature at the College of Purchase, State University of New York, former chair of the PEN Prison Writing Program *""A boy with no one to listen becomes a man in prison for life and discovers his mind can be free. A woman enters prison to teach and becomes his first listener. And so begins a twenty-five year friendship between two gifted writers and poets. The result is By Heart a book that will anger you, give you hope, and break your heart."" -- Gloria Steinem""A remarkable memoir of two powerful personalities brought together through poetry and prison. Through Judith's genuineness a poet awoke and found a way to live a fuller life in spite of confinement, and through Spoon's honesty and talent many people will be compelled to contribute to society, even if society has abandoned them."" -- Joseph Lea * Library Media Specialist, York Correctional Institution, Niantic, CT *""In their remarkable memoir, Spoon Jackson and Judith Tannenbaum show us how words change lives, how poetry invites you to free your mind, even in a maximum security prison. By Heart is their profoundly inspirational story, an engaging and enlightening examination of two people thrown together in a dark place and how both journey through darkness and into the light."" -- Ken Lamberton * author of Wilderness and Razor Wire: A Naturalist's Observations from Prison and other books *""By Heart is... a fascinating glimpse into a world that is mostly forgotten by those outside of it."" * Booksexy Review *""A portrait of prison and of the pursuit of art. An amazing combo, a compelling read. . . years later, acting in [Waiting for] Godot on Broadway, I see how much the San Quentin production has meant to my view of the play."" -- Bill Irwin * TONY winning actor, appeared in the Broadway revival of Waiting for Godot *""This is a book about poetry, about struggle, about freedom and incarceration, and most of all about heart. It is a wonderful read."" -- Devorah Major * San Francisco Poet Laureate 2002-2005 *""The collaboration between Judith Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson continues the path to freedom through art. By Heart is so beautifully described, both objectively and emotionally."" -- Barney Rosset * Publisher/Editor of Grove Press 1951-1985 *""Politics don't work, religion is a bit too eclectic, but ART is the parachute that could catch and hold us all!"" -- Rhodessa Jones * Founder/Artistic Director of the Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women *

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Book SynopsisThe United States has both the largest, most expensive, and most powerful military and the largest, most expensive, and most punitive carceral system in the history of the world. Since the American War in Vietnam, the number of veterans who have been incarcerated after their military service has steadily increased, with over 100,000 veterans in prison today. Identifying the previously unrecognized connections between American wars and mass incarceration, Prisoners after War reaches across lines of race, class, and gender to record the untold history of incarcerated veterans over the past six decades. Having conducted dozens of oral history interviews, Jason A. Higgins traces the lifelong effects of war, inequality, disability, and mental illness, and explores why hundreds of thousands of veterans, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, were caught up in the carceral system. This original study tells an intergenerational history of state-sanctioned violence, punishment, and inequality, but its pages also resonate with stories of survival and redemption, revealing future possibilities for reform and reparative justice.Trade ReviewPrisoners after War is on the cutting edge. It will appeal to a wide array of readers, including scholars of carceral and military history, social scientists interested in the intersections of veterans’ service and reentry, and crucially, general audiences curious about the lived experiences of criminalization and incarceration." - Melanie D. Newport, author of This is My Jail: Local Politics and the Rise and Mass Incarceration

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Book SynopsisThis is the story of Robert Rice Howard (1832–1906), the man known as Nosey Bob. It is also an important chapter in the story of the changing attitudes towards capital punishment in Australia, as the country transformed from generally enthusiastic spectators at executions into campaigners for the abolition of the death penalty. These interconnected stories are told through the men, and the one woman, who met Nosey Bob under the worst possible circumstances between his first employment by the Department of Justice in 1876 and his retirement as the executioner for New South Wales in 1904.Once a household name, Nosey Bob was the most infamous public servant in Sydney: a noseless hangman who sparked fear and fascination everywhere he went. Howard has only ever been cast as an extra in someone else's play, making frightening appearances in a felon's final scene on the gallows. Here, for the first time, he has taken the lead.Trade Review'Franks displays wit, writerly sensitivity and a scholar's rigour.'— Peter Doyle'Riveting, startling and brimming with powerful insights.'— Grace Karskens

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Book SynopsisThe U.S. incarceration machine imprisons more people than in any other country. Music-Making in U.S. Prisons looks at the role music-making can play in achieving goals of accountability and healing that challenge the widespread assumption that prisons and punishment keep societies safe. The book’s synthesis of historical research, contemporary practices, and pedagogies of music-making inside prisons reveals that, prior to the 1970s tough-on-crime era, choirs, instrumental ensembles, and radio shows bridged lives inside and outside prisons. Mass incarceration had a significant negative impact on music programs. Despite this setback, current programs testify to the potency of music education to support personal and social growth for people experiencing incarceration and deepen social awareness of the humanity found behind prison walls. Cohen and Duncan argue that music-making creates opportunities to humanize the complexity of crime, sustain meaningful relationships between incarcerated individuals and their families, and build social awareness of the prison industrial complex. The authors combine scholarship and personal experience to guide music educators, music aficionados, and social activists to create restorative social practices through music-making.Trade Review“Music-Making in U.S. Prisons is an important work that demonstrates the power of collaborative musical art-making within prisons with an illustrative collection of examples from many locations and across timespans. This book is grounded in humanity, both an incarcerated individual’s understanding of their own humanity, and society’s perception of it within incarcerated people. I believe it will spark the imagination of many practitioners and could encourage more dramatic change in the prison-industrial complex through the mechanisms described: connecting people inside to the community outside and reinforcing the humanity and dignity of everyone involved.” —Robert Pollock, Prison Writing Program Manager, PEN America “At just the right moment—as art is increasingly recognized as a potent weapon in the ongoing fight against mass incarceration—this thoughtful, artful, humanizing analysis of music’s role as an agent of healing and collective action is critical reading.” —Dr. Baz Dreisinger, author of Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the WorldTable of Contents 1: Why Music-Making in Prisons? 2: “Might Is Not Always Right”: Historical Reflections of Music-Making in U.S. Prisons 3: “In Encourage Everyone to Step Out of Their Comfort Zone”: Developing Agency in Instrumental Music Education in Prisons 4: “Their Singing Saved Me”: Social Awareness through Choral Singing 5: Dynamic Nature of Songwriting in Prisons: Interactions among Singers, Prison Staff, and Audience Members 6: “So Much More”: Pedagogies that Support Human Dignity and Social Responsibility for Musical Communities Working toward Abolition of the Prison Industrial Complex

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 ESC Book Award. Despite its dramatic proliferation and diversification in recent decades, supervisory forms of punishment in the community (like probation, parole and unpaid work) have been largely invisible in scholarly and public discussion of criminal justice and its development in late-modern societies. The long-standing pre-occupation with the prison, and more recent concerns about 'mass incarceration' have allowed the emergence of 'mass supervision' to remain in the shadows. Pervasive Punishment insists that we remedy this neglect and exemplifies how we can do so. Drawing on thirty years of personal, practice and research experiences, it offers a compelling and rich account of the scale and social distribution of mass supervision, of the processes by which it has been legitimated, and of how it is experienced by those subject to it. Its innovative approach invites readers to look at, listen to and imagine punishment beyond the prison, through the use of innovative and creative methods including photography, song-writing and story-telling to explore and to represent 'mass supervision'. By so doing, this book offers new insights into how and why combining social science and creative practice can help develop a different kind of democratic dialogue about contentious social issues like crime and punishment. Though focused on the UK and the USA, the methods used in and analysis developed in this book will be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners elsewhere.Trade Review"an impassioned, informative and important work that delivers deep insights into the character of mass supervision" - Punishment and Society“Brings to life the deep harms of supervision and how we might reconfigure it to create more justice for individuals and our communities” - Dr Michelle S. Phelps, University of Minnesota, USA“Remarkable and ground-breaking…this singular work will challenge your understanding of punishment as well as your views about the limitations of academic work” - Professor Shadd Maruna, Queen’s University Belfast, UK“Deserves to be widely read by scholars, students and policy makers” - Dr Gwen Robinson, University of Sheffield, UK“An immensely readable account that is compassionate, empathetic, and humane – yet sharply observed and deeply critical” - Professor David Garland, New York University, USABeginning with the terms probation and parole, McNeill explores the diverse set of sanctions or measure imposed by criminal courts that involve some form of supervision in the community, whether instead of a custodial sentence as in certain forms of suspended or conditional sentences, as a community-based sentence in its own right (like probation in some jurisdiction), or as part of a sentence that begins with imprisonment but extends beyond it as in parole. He looks at the scale and social distribution of such mass supervision, the processes by which it has been legitimated, and how it is experienced by those subject to it. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *Table of Contents1. Punishment Pervades 2. Punishment Changes 3. Counting Mass Supervision 4. Legitimating Mass Supervision 5. Experiencing Mass Supervision 6. Seeing Mass Supervision 7. Supervision: Unleashed or Restrained? Postscript. Making stories and songs from supervision; Fergus McNeill and Jo Collinson Scott Appendix. The Invisible Collar (A story about supervision)

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Book SynopsisPrisons systematically dehumanise the imprisoned. Visualised through mugshots and surveillance recordings, the incarcerated lose control of their own image and identity. The criminal justice system in the United States does not only carry out so-called justice in ways that compound inequality, it also minimises the possibility for empathetic encounters with those who are most marginalised. It is therefore urgent to understand how prisoners are portrayed by the carceral state and how this might be countered or recuperated. How can understanding the visual representation of prisoners help us confront the invisible forms of power in the American prison system? Ethical Portraits investigates the representation of the incarcerated in the United States criminal justice system, and the state’s failure to represent those incarcerated humanely. Through wide-ranging interviews and creative nonfiction, Hatty Nestor deconstructs the different roles of prison portraiture, such as in courtroom sketches, DNA profiling, and the incarceration of Chelsea Manning.

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Book SynopsisPower on the Inside is the first book to examine the historical development of prison gangs worldwide, from those that emerged inside mid-nineteenth-century Neapolitan prisons to the new generation of younger inmates challenging the status quo within gang subcultures today. Historian-criminologist Mitchel P. Roth examines prison gangs throughout the world, from the Americas, Oceania, and South Africa to Southeast Asia, Europe, and beyond. The book examines the many variables that influence the evolution of prison subcultures, from colonialism and population demographics to prison architecture and staff-prisoner relations. Power on the Inside features eighty historical and contemporary images and will inform professionals in the field as well as general readers who want to know more about the realities of prison gangs today.Trade Review"[An] eye-opening examination of the different hierarchies and ideologies employed by prison gangs around the world. . . . A revealing study with broad implications for policymakers and law enforcement." * Kirkus Reviews *"Academic criminologist Roth offers an unprecedented historical and global perspective on prison gangs. He challenges stereotypes and misconceptions—not all prison gangs are harmful; some provide a sense of order that staff cannot. Roth explores a wide range of gangs, from the Bladebaaz gangs in India to the Camorra in Italy to South Africa's Numbers gangs; he also looks at gangs in North America, Latin America, Oceania, and Europe. His scholarly, meticulous analysis of the various types of organizations and comparisons will give readers a stronger understanding of these prison subcultures—for instance, in the Philippines, the Sigue Sigue groups are considered to be of higher status than the Visayan gangs (Manilan housekeepers tend to come from the Visayan-speaking demographics). Roth illuminates the motivations, behavior, and activity of the organizations both inside and outside of prison and discusses how members function within the prison environment. Roth's well-written, deeply researched work is a must for those in the criminology and criminal justice fields, but interested general readers will find it accessible as well." * Library Journal *“Who wields power ‘inside?’ Roth's chilling and fascinating comparative history of prison gangs demonstrates how far prisons across the world can be considered micro-states, with gangs the crude and exploitative authorities that emerge to run them through violence, fear—and a rough-and-ready sense of order.” -- Mark Galeotti, author of "The Vory: Russia's Super-Mafia "“Finally, a historical analysis of prison gangs worldwide. This book by Roth sets the new standard for prison-gang scholarship. It offers a cross-cultural and cross-border factual analysis of a major international problem not yet addressed by the United Nations. The material on organized crime alone makes this required reading and a reference work for all libraries.” -- George W. Knox, executive director, National Gang Crime Research Center, Chicago, IL“This is a thoroughly researched, well-illustrated, and yet accessible account of prison gangs, which has the advantage of being both historical and global in its reach. Above all, it was a joy to read.” -- David Wilson, emeritus professor of criminology at Birmingham City University, former prison governor, and well-known TV and radio presenter"Demonstrates both the variations in and similarities of prison gangs through time and around the world. There are few books of this scope or importance." -- Scott H. Decker, Foundation Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University"An ambitious and stimulating account that draws attention to the historical and cultural contexts in which the prison gang phenomenon has emerged worldwide. Power on the Inside should be essential reading for scholars and students in the comparative prison studies field." -- Sacha Darke, senior lecturer in criminology, University of Westminster"This is a timely book that brings together research from around the world rather than focusing on North America and Europe. In doing so, Roth demonstrates the need for, and generates ideas for, research on prison gangs in other nations." -- Mark Lauchs, associate professor of criminology, Queensland University of Technology

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