Imprisonment

The International library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology is an important publishing initiative that brings together the most significant contemporary published journal essays in current criminology, criminal justice and penology. The series makes available to researchers, academics and students of criminology an extensive range of essays which are indispensable for obtaining an overview of the latest theories and findings in this fast developing field.

Acknowledgements

vii

Series Preface

ix

Introduction

xi

PART I THE NATURE OF IMPRISONMENT

`The Characteristics of Total Institutions' in Amitai Etzioni (ed.)

3

(28)

Erving Goffman

`Labor Market and Penal Sanction: Thoughts on the Sociology of Criminal Justice'

31

(8)

Georg Rusche

`Complete and Austere Institutions' in Michel Foucault (ed.)

39

(32)

Michel Foucault

PART II THE SCALE OF IMPRISONMENT

`America's Soaring Prison Population'

71

(6)

Patrick A. Langan

`Unemployment, Crime and Imprisonment, and the Enduring Problem of Prison Overcrowding', in Roger Matthews and Jock Young (eds)

77

(28)

Steven Box

Chris Hale

`Changes in Crime and Punishment in America, England and Sweden Between the 1980s and 1990s'

105

(28)

David P. Farrington

Patrick A. Langan

Per-Olof H. Wikstrom

`Changes in the Use of Imprisonment in England and Wales 1950-1991'

133

(10)

Christopher Nuttall

Ken Pease

PART III DOES PRISON WORK?

`What Works? -- Questions and Answers about Prison Reform'

143

(34)

Robert Martinson

`Martinson Revisited'

177

(20)

Ted Palmer

`British Prisons 1970--1987: The Ever-Deepening Crisis'

197

(22)

Roy D. King

Kathleen McDermott

```Does Prison Pay?'' Revisited: Returning to the Crime Scene'

219

(6)

Anne Morrison Piehl

John J. Dilulio, Jr.

`Does Prison Work?'

225

(32)

Charles Murray

`Prison Myths' in Elliott Currie (ed.)

257

(46)

Elliott Currie

PART IV GENDER, RACE AND IMPRISONMENT

`Patriarchy, Prisons, and Jails: A Critical Look at Trends in Women's Incarceration'

303

(18)

Meda Chesney-Lind

`Is There a Feminist Future for Women's Prisons?', in R. Matthews and P. Francis (eds)

321

(22)

Margaret Shaw

`Wayward Sisters: The Prison for Women', in Norval Morris and David J. Rothman (eds)

343

(34)

Lucia Zedner

`On the Racial Disproportionality of United States' Prison Populations'

377

(24)

Alfred Blumstein

`Racial Disproportion in US Prisons'

401

(20)

Michael Tonry

`Racial Disparity in Sentencing: Reflections on the Hood Study'

421

(12)

Andrew von Hirsch

Julian V. Roberts

PART V THE FUTURE OF IMPRISONMENT

`Prison Privatization: An International Perspective', in R. Matthews and P. Francis (eds)

433

(26)

Kristel Beyens

Sonja Snacken

`Limiting Prison Use: Experience in England and Wales'

459

(26)

Anthony E. Bottoms

`The New Penology: Notes on the Emerging Strategy of Corrections and its Implications'

485

(26)

Malcolm M. Feeley

Jonathan Simon

`Penal Modernism and Postmodernism', in T. Blomberg and S. Cohen (eds)

511

(30)

David Garland

`Two Futures for American Corrections', in Brendan Maguire and Polly F. Radosh (eds)

541

(22)

Francis T. Cullen

John P. Wright

Name Index

563

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