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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Dario Melossi |
ISBN: | 1855217996 9781855217997 |
OCLC Number: | 37443241 |
Description: | xxx, 524 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | Pt. I. The Classics -- 1. Two Laws of Penal Evolution / Emile Durkheim -- 2. The Psychology of Punitive Justice / George Herbert Mead -- 3. Labor Market and Penal Sanction: Thoughts on the Sociology of Criminal Justice / Georg Rusche -- 4. The Decreasing Prison Population of England -- 1934 / Edwin H. Sutherland -- 5. Hypotheses in the Sociology of Punishment / Donald R. Cressey -- 6. Changes in Penal Values / Nils Christie -- Pt. II. Measuring and Comparing Punishment -- 7. Power Concentration, Legitimation Crisis and Penal Severity: A Comparative Perspective / Martin Killias -- 8. A Comparison of Prison Use in England, Canada, West Germany, and the United States: A Limited Test of the Punitive Hypothesis / James P. Lynch -- 9. Cross-National Comparisons of Imprisonment / Warren Young and Mark Brown -- 10. Knowledge, Domination, and Criminal Punishment / Joachim J. Savelsberg -- 11. Cross-National Imprisonment Rates: Limitations of Method and Possible Conclusions / Ken Pease -- Pt. III. Punishment: Self-Regulation or the Economy? -- 12. The Dynamics of a Homeostatic Punishment Process / Alfred Blumstein, Jacqueline Cohen and Daniel Nagin -- 13. The Dynamics of Oscillatory Punishment Processes / David F. Greenberg -- 14. Labor Market and Imprisonment / Ivan Jankovic -- 15. A Test of the Stability of Punishment Hypothesis: The Case of California, 1851-1970 / Richard A. Berk, David Rauma and Sheldon L. Messinger -- 16. Economic Crisis and the Rising Prisoner Population in England and Wales / Steven Box and Chris Hale -- 17. Labor Surplus and Punishment: A Review and Assessment of Theory and Evidence / Theodore G. Chiricos and Miriam A. DeLone -- Pt. IV. Culture, History and Changing Vocabularies of Punishment -- 18. Gender, Prisons, and Prison History / Nicole Hahn Rafter -- 19. Humanitarianism, Labour Exploitation, or Social Control? A Critical Survey of Theory and Research on the Origin and Development of Prisons / Robert P. Weiss -- 20. Frameworks of Inquiry in the Sociology of Punishment / David Garland -- 21. The New Penology: Notes on the Emerging Strategy of Corrections and its Implications / Malcolm M. Feeley and Jonathan Simon -- 22. Gazette of Morality and Social Whip: Punishment, Hegemony and the Case of the USA, 1970-92 / Dario Melossi -- 23. The New Penology and Politics in Crisis: The Italian Case / Massimo Pavarini. |
Series Title: | International library of criminology, criminal justice & penology. |
Responsibility: | edited by Dario Melossi. |
Abstract:
Looking at the issue of punishment from a sociological perspective, this volume includes essays on its culture and history.
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