The Political Economy of Punishment Today: An Introduction, Jose A. Brandariz-Garcia, Dario Melossi and Maximo Sozzo, 1. Between Struggles and Discipline: Marx and Foucault on Penality and the Critique of Political Economy, Dario Melossi, 2. The Renaissance of The Political Economy of Punishment from a Comparative Perspective, Maximo Sozzo, 3. For and Against the Political Economy of Punishment: Thoughts on Bourdieu and Punishment, Ignacio Gonzalez-Sanchez, 4. Do Economic Depressions Reduce the Use of Fines? Revisiting Rusche and Kirchheimer's Punishment and Social Structure, Patricia Faraldo Cabana, 5. From One Recession to Another: The Lessons of a Long-Term Political Economy of Punishment. The Example of Belgium (1830-2014), Charlotte Vanneste, 6. Political Economy and Punishment in Australia, Hilde Tubex, 7. Punishment in A Hybrid Political Economy: The Italian Case (1970-2010), Zelia A. Gallo, 8. 'A Return to Gulags'? Explaining Trends in Post-Soviet Prison Rates, Gavin Slade, 9. Inclusion's Dark Side: The Political Economy of Irregular Migration in Greece, Leonidas K. Cheliotis, 10. Reflections on Spanish Policies of Migration Control: A Political Economic Reading on the Punishment of Migrants, Jose Angel Brandariz-Garcia