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1 online resource. |
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Description based on print version record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-273) and index. |
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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Explaining US imprisonment -- Statistical overview -- Culture of control -- Methodology -- Structure of explanation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Origins Of US Imprisonment: Beyond The Penitentiary -- Colonial justice -- War of independence (1775-1783) -- Prisons, slavery, and the antebellum south -- Religious reform in the north -- Civil war -- Reconstruction and beyond -- Women's prisons -- Debating imprisonment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Penal Reform And Prison Science: Engineering Order And Building America -- Penal reformism: The National Prison Association -- Prison science: reformism and social engineering -- First world war: conscientious objectors and prison -- Federal bureau of prisons -- Depression: prisons, labor, and social structure -- World War II: questions of national security -- Women's reformatories -- Reform, science, and nation-building -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Prison Culture: Sociology And Social Change -- Prison community -- Importation versus deprivation -- Gender -- Race -- Sexuality -- Research methods, governance, and social control -- Conclusion: Contextualizing sociological accounts of imprisonment -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Era Of Uncertainty: Riots, Reform, And Repression -- Attica -- Activism before and after Attica -- Administration of justice -- Demise of rehabilitation -- Penal revisionism and prisoners' rights: theory versus practice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Punitive Turn: Laying The Foundations For Mass Imprisonment -- Reagan years -- Legislating punishment -- Private prisons -- Prison building and supermax -- Challenging imprisonment in an era of punitivism -- Conclusion -- Notes. |
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Chapter 6: Culture Of Control -- Prisons and politics in the 1990s -- Punishment and modern society: explaining the culture of control -- Neoconservatives, the culture wars, and prison -- Managing prisons -- Experience incarceration and challenging the culture of control -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Challenging The Culture Of Control? -- Prisons in the 21st century -- Costs of imprisonment: an emerging critique -- Prison conditions and public safety -- Courts: an alternative source of critique -- Hurricane Katrina -- Governing though crime -- Opening the prison: convict voices -- Conclusion: Governing through imprisonment? -- Notes -- Chapter 8: New Detention: Securing The Border -- Context -- Law -- Detaining immigrants -- War on terror -- Scholarly accounts of the war on terror: a failure of the criminological imagination? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion: Where to from here? -- Prisons, history, and paradox -- Securing the nation in troubles times -- Prisons and the state -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the author. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Imprisonment -- United States.
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Prisons -- United States.
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Prisoners -- United States.
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Ebooks Corporation
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| Added Title |
Explaining US imprisonment |
| Related To |
Original 9781412924863 1412924863 9781412924870 1412924871 (DLC) 2009019945 |
| ISBN |
9781483302102 (electronic bk.) |
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1483302105 (electronic bk.) |
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9781412924863 (cloth) |
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1412924863 (cloth) |
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9781412924870 (pbk.) |
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1412924871 (pbk.) |
| OCLC # |
EBC1160196 |
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