Punishment and Prisons: Power and the Carceral State

by Joe Sim

Book Overview

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 analyzes four key dimensions of modern penal trends continuity and discontinuity in penal policy and practice, reform and rehabilitation, contesting penal power,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076196004X
• ISBN13: 9780761960041
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"