Mass imprisonment [[electronic resource] ] : social causes and consequences / / edited by David Garland

• Pubblicazione: London, : SAGE, c2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 184 p.)
• Disciplina: 365.0973
• Soggetto topico: Imprisonment - United States; Imprisonment - Social aspects - United States
• Altri autori: GarlandDavid
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mass imprisonment
• ISBN: 9781446221228; 1446221229; 9781849208239; 1849208239; 9786612337222; 128233722X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778420303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II