Ironies of imprisonment. (2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael Welch.
• Other Names: Welch, Michael, 1960-
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: 364.6/0973; 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; Corrections; Criminal justice, Administration of; Imprisonment; Prisons; Strafstelsel; Gevangenissen; Strafvollzug; Geschichte; United States; USA
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452237398; 1452237395
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