Sim, Joe. <br/><br/>
Punishment and prisons :  power and the carceral state / 
Joe Sim. 
 - xiii, 183 pages ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Continuity and contestation in penal politics -- Law, order and the penal system 1974-83 -- Hard reign: Thatcherism and the consolidation of penal authoritarianism 1983-90 -- From big house to Bleak House: prisons in the "Iron Times" 1990-97 -- "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 -- Abolitionists in an anti-Utopian Age. 
<br/><br/> Joe Sim traces the development of penal strategy over the past three decades through a critical analysis that makes explicit the theoretical relations between penal policy and state power. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Corrections--Great Britain.<br/>Services correctionnels--Grande-Bretagne.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>365.9411  / S 588