Re-Thinking the Political Economy of Punishment: Perspectives on Post-Fordism and Penal Politics

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ISBN: 9780754626107 | 0754626105
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/28/2006

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Examining the political economy of punishment, this book debates the view that the evolution of punitive systems should be connected to the transformations of capitalist economies. The author investigates the emergence of a new flexible labour force in contemporary Western societies and the role of penal politics in controlling this labour force.

Acknowledgements

vii

Introduction

1 The Political Economy of Penality and the Sociology of Punishment – Past and Present

(40)

Introduction

(2)

Penality and the Critique of Political Economy

(3)

Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer: Punishment and Social Structure and the Foundation of the Political Economy of Punishment

(3)

The Political Economy of Punishment and the New Histories of Punishment

(1)

A Just Measure of Pain

(2)

Discipline and Punish

(3)

The Prison and the Factory

(4)

Political Economies of Contemporary Penality

(1)

Incarceration and Unemployment: The United States

(6)

Incarceration and Unemployment: Other Contexts

(3)

Variations on a Theme

(5)

A Return to Rusche and Kirchheimer?

(6)

Beyond the Political Economy of Punishment?

(2)

2 Post-Fordism and the Emergence of the Multitude

(26)

Post-Fordism: A Regime of Surplus

(6)

Social Surplus: 'The New Excluded'

(7)

Productive Surplus: 'The Immaterial Labour Force'

(6)

The Post-Fordist Labour Force as a Multitude

(7)

3 The Government of Surplus – Preliminary Incursions in the Field of Post-Fordist Social Control

(24)

From the 'Discipline of Scarcity' to the 'Government of Surplus'

(7)

Control as 'Non-Knowledge'

(3)

The Panopticon and Beyond: Signs of a Post-Disciplinary Order

(4)

The Punitive Metropolis

(5)

Bridling the Net

(5)

4 Mass Confinement and Actuarial Penology

(20)

Mass Imprisonment: From the Welfare State to the Penal State?

(12)

Incarcerating Risk: The Actuarial Prison

103

(8)

5 The Criminalisation of International Migrations: Towards an Actuarial Model of Control?

111

(28)

Introduction: Migrations in a Global Economy

111

(6)

European Immigration Control: Towards a 'Penal State'?

117

(7)

Immigration as an 'Ontological Crime'

124

(2)

The War on Immigrants across Europe and the United States

126

(3)

Detention and Expulsion as Actuarial Technologies

129

(10)

Conclusion

139

(6)

Bibliography

145

(18)

Index

163

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Re-Thinking the Political Economy of Punishment: Perspectives on Post-Fordism and Penal Politics

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