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Perspectives on Punishment The Contours of Control

Name: Perspectives on Punishment
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199278770
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Author: Sarah Armstrong; Lesley McAra
ISBN: 9780199278770

Edited by Sarah Armstrong · Lesley McAra

Oxford University Press August 2006

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9780199278770
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: August 2006
Format: Paperback , 300 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Takes a multidisciplinary approach to the subject of penal policy and criminology
Includes a mixture of both empirical research and theoretical perspectives
Comparative analysis
International coverage

ERRATUM The sentence on p. 153, lines 5-7 should read "...if welfare expenditure had not risen but remained at its 1987 level, the rise in imprisonment would have been 20 per cent greater than actually occurred, i.e. from 75 in 1987 to 99 in 1998." No other part of the book is affected by this correction.

Readership: Scholars, advanced students, and policy-makers in the fields of Criminal Law; Crime & Criminology; Penology & Punishment; Sentencing and Punishment; Social Theory; Terrorism; Politics & Government; and Jurisprudence

Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1: Sarah Armstrong and Lesley McAra: Audience, borders, architecture: the contours of control
2: Richard Sparks: Ordinary anxieties and states of emergency: statecraft and spectatorship in the new politics of insecurity
3: Lindsay Farmer: Tony Martin and the nightbreakers: criminal law, victims and the power to punish
4: Evi Girling: European identity, penal sensibilities and communities of sentiment
5: Loïc Wacquant: Penalization, depoliticization, racialization: on the over-incarceration of immigrants in the European Union
6: Laura Piacentini: Prisons during transition: promoting a common penal identity through international norms
7: Thomas Mathiesen: The globalization of control - towards a control system without a state?
8: David Downes and Kirstine Hansen: Welfare and punishment in comparative perspective
9: Neil Hutton: Sentencing as a Social Practice
10: Richard Jones: 'Architecture', criminal justice, and control
11: Andrew Scull: Power, social control, and psychiatry: some critical reflections
12: Malcolm Feeley: Origins of actuarial justice

About the Author

Edited by Sarah Armstrong, Lecturer in Law, University of Edinburgh, and Lesley McAra, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Edinburgh
Contributors:
Sarah Armstrong
Lesley McAra
Richard Sparks
Lindsay Farmer
Evi Girling
Loïc Wacquant
Laura Piacentini
Thomas Mathiesen
David Downes
Kirstine Hansen
Neil Hutton
Richard Jones
Andrew Scull
Malcolm Feeley