Ironies of Imprisonment.

Ironies of Imprisonment examines in-depth an array of problems confronting correctional programs and policies from the author's singular and consistent critical viewpoint. The book challenges the prevailing logic of mass incarceration and traces the ironies of imprisonment to their root causes,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Welch, Michael F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2004.
Temas:
Imprisonment > United States.
Prisons > United States.
Corrections > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Emprisonnement > États-Unis.
Prisons > États-Unis.
Services correctionnels > États-Unis.
Justice pénale > Administration > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Corrections
Criminal justice, Administration of
Imprisonment
Prisons
Strafvollzug
Geschichte
Strafstelsel.
Gevangenissen.
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • End-of-chapter questions
  • 2. Discovery of the penitentiary
  • Punishment in colonial America
  • Institutionalization during the Jacksonian era
  • The Pennsylvania and Auburn systems of prison discipline
  • Rothman and social control
  • Critical interpretations of the history of prisons
  • Conclusion
  • End-of-chapter questions
  • 3. Critical penology
  • Emergence of critical criminology
  • Contemporary critical criminology
  • Production of problem populations in capitalist society
  • Disparities in sentencing
  • Postmodern feminism
  • Anarchist criminology
  • Conclusion
  • End-of-chapter questions
  • 4. War on drugs and just war theory
  • Just war theory
  • Justice of the war on drugs : evaluating the moral reasons
  • Legitimate authority
  • Right intention
  • Last resort
  • Justice in the war on drugs : evaluating the means
  • Discrimination
  • Conclusion
  • End-of-chapter questions
  • 5. Health care crisis behind bars
  • HIV/AIDS : metaphors and morality
  • Prisoners with HIV/AIDS as a problem population
  • Tuberculosis in corrections
  • Aging prisoners
  • The phenomenology of imprisonment and suffering
  • Conclusion
  • End-of-chapter questions
  • 6. Reproducing prison violence
  • Ironies of social control
  • Escalation
  • Nonenforcement
  • Covert facilitation
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • End-of-chapter questions.
  • 7. Ironies of capital punishment
  • Escalation
  • Brutalization versus deterrence
  • Creation of new categories and net widening
  • Nonenforcement
  • Covert facilitation
  • Forced confessions
  • Conclusion
  • End-of-chapter questions
  • 8. War on terror and the misuse of detention
  • Profiling in the war on terror
  • Special registration program
  • Misuse of detention
  • Government secrecy
  • The 2003 Inspector General's report
  • Conclusion
  • Note
  • End-of-chapter questions
  • 9. Punitive profit
  • Production of prisoners
  • The corrections economy
  • Privatizing punishment
  • Corrections-industrial complex
  • Private prisons, public problems
  • Accountability and liability
  • questionable claims of cost savings
  • Abuse of inmates and security lapses
  • Reproducing inequality
  • Economic ironies and rural prisons
  • Student activism takes aim at prison profiteering
  • Conclusion
  • Note
  • End-of-chapter questions
  • 10. Confronting corrections
  • Critical penology and the culture of control
  • Juvenile superpredators
  • Wilding : manufacturing menace in the media
  • Three strikes, you're out
  • A final look at prisonomics
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • End-of-chapter questions
  • Cases.

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