This book is designed to acquaint students with some of the main issues associated with the emergence and development of the modern prison. It draws on a range of sociological theorising in order to analyse the organisation and the functioning of the prison. It examines the conditions for the expansion of the prison and explores the possibilities for limiting prison use through the development of alternatives to custody. In particular, it looks in some detail at the relation between imprisonment and class, age, gender and race.
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'...a good criminology textbook...should be a well-written volume providing a wide range of reliable data and textual reference, while comprehensively engaging with the main theoretical debates. If, at the same time...[it] manages to conceptualise those theoretical debates in their wider cultural, social political and economic contexts without losing the fluidity of expositional style and vividness of example desirable in introductory texts, then the author might even be congratulated on producing an unusually excellent primer. Such a rare feat has been achieved by Roger Matthews in his book...The most admirable aspect...is the elegant and economic way in which Matthews provides a broad sweep of empirical data and theoretical perspectives in one small volume.' - Pat Carlen, Professor of Criminology, University of Bath
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Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Height: 217 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
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978-0-333-75231-9 (9780333752319)
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Roger Matthews is Professor of Criminology at London South Bank University, UK. He is Head of the Crime Reduction and Community Safety Research Group. He is sole author of Armed Robbery and Prostitution, Politics and Policy . He has also produced joint authored texts on community safety and edited a number of books on criminological theory, imprisonment and crime control.
Preface Acknowledgements The Emergence of the Modern Prison Space, Time and Labour Order, Control and Adaptation in Prison Prison Profile: Data, Trends and Analysis Unemployment and Imprisonment The Scale of Imprisonment Juveniles in Custody Women's Imprisonment Race and Imprisonment The Future of Imprisonment Bibliography Index
