Joe Sim

Punishment and Prisons (eBook, PDF)

Power and the Carceral State

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Produktbeschreibung

'Punishment and Prisons is a scholarly, powerful and inspirational critique. With passion and humanity, Joe Sim strips neo-liberal penal policies of their reformist pretensions and demonstrates that prisons will continue to be brutal enforcers of gross economic inequalities until such time as the abolitionist alternative is realised' - Pat Carlen

Joe Sim has long occupied a key position in British and European criminology. This book is a genuinely important addition to the literature; it is controversial and will stimulate debate. Punishment and Prisons shows that critical criminology is alive, that it has a voice and that it needs to be read. - Peter Young, Professor of Criminology, University of Hull

'A satisfyingly uncompromising critique that has no fear of coming to clear conclusions and provides little succour to those satisfied with short term change in the current system. Sim provides the kind of concise, articulate and powerful critique of apparent criminological realities, which is necessary to motivate genuine reform and can help to ensure that practitioners and others do not forget the big picture.' - Probation Journal

Joe Sim offers a rich and persuasive analysis of imprisonment, providing a wealth of political and policy detail. He makes his reader confront the cruelties of imprisonment as well as its ineffectiveness in reducing crime, and it would surely be impossible to read this book without feeling profound disquiet about the deployment of the power to punish in contemporary Britain. Punishment and Prisons has a breadth and depth of scholarship, arguing powerfully for a more critical criminology and an abolitionist stance towards imprisonment. I urge all those interested in penal policy - whether as students, teachers, researchers, reformers, politicians or penal professionals - to read this important and disturbing book. - Professor Barbara Hudson, Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies, University of Central Lancashire



With prisons overflowing and penal policy the topic of hot debate, Punishment and Prisons: Power and the Carceral State presents a lively and accessible discussion of possible solutions to the current crisis, by one of the foremost scholars in the field.

Joe Sim traces the development of penal strategy over the past three decades, through a critical analysis of the relationship between penal policy and state power. Exploring the contested histories of punishment that are prominent in criminology, and its development in penal policy, the book analyses four key dimensions of modern penal trends:

"continuity and discontinuity in penal policy and practice

"reform and rehabilitation

"contesting penal power

"abolitionism.

Articulate, innovative and theoretically informed, Punishment and Prisons: Power and the Carceral State offers a critical overview of contemporary penal politics that will prove a compelling addition to the criminological library.

The book is written for not only for students and academics but also for those involved in the debates on penal policy - including prison reform groups, politicians and the media. It offers a series of suggestions for alleviating the current crisis, setting out a policy agenda for transforming the role and place of the prison in the criminal justice system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857029539
• Artikelnr.: 38398962

Inhaltsangabe

Continuity and Contestation in Penal Politics Law, Order and the Penal System 1974-1983 Hard Reign Thatcherism and the Consolidation of Penal Authoritarianism, 1983-1990 From Big House to Bleak House Prisons in the
Iron Times
1990-1997
Piety and Iron
New Labour and Social Authoritarianism
Those with no Capital get the Punishment
New Labour and the Working Prison For Abolitionist Praxis Transcending the Prison Mentality Abolitionism in an Anti-Utopian Age

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Continuity and Contestation in Penal Politics
Law, Order and the Penal System 1974-1983
Hard Reign
Thatcherism and the Consolidation of Penal Authoritarianism, 1983-1990
From Big House to Bleak House
Prisons in the 'Iron Times' 1990-1997
'Piety and Iron'
New Labour and Social Authoritarianism
'Those with no Capital get the Punishment'
New Labour and the Working Prison
For Abolitionist Praxis
Transcending the Prison Mentality
Abolitionism in an Anti-Utopian Age

Rezensionen

Overall, the book is an impressive and provocative achievement. A brief summary cannot do justice to the wealth of detail and subtlety of argument contained in the pages. Among the many important themes explored in the book perhaps the most significant is the enduring presence of the prison within the political landscape of the last three decades. Indeed, one of the major strengths of the book is the way each of the substantive chapters has a nuanced grasp of the ideological struggles surrounding crime and punishment within both Conservative and New Labour administrations.

Theoretical Criminology