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Punishment and prisons : power and the carceral state / Joe Sim.

By: Publisher: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2009Description: xiii, 183 pages ; 24 cmSubject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Punishment and prisons.DDC classification:
  • 365.9411 23 S 588
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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