TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sim,Joe
TI  - Punishment and prisons: power and the carceral state 
U1  - 365.9411 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Los Angeles
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Corrections
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Services correctionnels
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -