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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820312003321

Titolo

Mass imprisonment : social causes and consequences / / edited by David Garland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., : SAGE, 2001

ISBN

9781446221228

1446221229

9781849208239

1849208239

9786612337222

128233722X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 184 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GarlandDavid

Disciplina

365.0973

Soggetti

Imprisonment - Social aspects - United States

Imprisonment - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction - The meaning of mass imprisonment; 1 - The causes and consequences of prison growth in the United States; 2 - Fear and loathing in late modernity. Reflections on the cultural sources of mass imprisonment in the United States; 3 - Television, public space and prison population. A commentary on Mauer and Simon; 4 - Governing social marginality. Welfare, incarceration, and the transformation of state policy; 5 - The macho penal economy. Mass incarceration in the United States - a European perspective

6 - Novus ordo saeclorum? A commentary on Downes, and on Beckett and Western7 - Deadly symbiosis. When ghetto and prison meet and mesh; 8 - Going straight. The story of a young inner-city ex-convict; 9 - Bringing the individual back in. A commentary on Wacquant and Anderson; 10 - Imprisonment rates and the new politics of criminal punishment; 11 - Unthought thoughts. The influence of changing sensibilities on penal policies; 12 - Facts, values and prison policies. A commentary on Zimring and Tonry; 13 - The private and the public in



penal history. A commentary on Zimring and Tonry

Epilogue - The new iron cage -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

'Mass Imprisonment' examines what is known about the political and penological causes of the social phenomenon of the US prison system. David Garland brings together papers by criminologists sociologists and historians to describe the impact of prison.