Why Prison?

Cover; Contents; Figures and Tables; Contributors; Table of Cases; Foreword; 1. Why prison? Posing the question; Global hyper-incarceration; Questioning incarceration; 1. Prisons are a natural and inevitable response to 'crime'; 2. Prison prevents 'crime' by deterring offenders; 3. Prison turns bad criminals into good citizens; 4. Prisons protect the public from 'dangerous offenders'; 5. Prison reflects our need to punish 'crime'; Structure of the book; Part I. Penal discipline; 2. Prisons and social structures in late-capitalist societies*; Political economy of punishment.

Neoliberal penal discipline in the USAIllegalisation and criminalisation in Europe; Toward a post-reductionist political economy of punishment; 3. The prison paradox in neoliberal Britain; Neoliberalism in contemporary Britain; The symbolic function of imprisonment: the prison as a site of exclusion; The diversionary function of imprisonment: the prison as a tool of legitimacy; Authoritarian populism; The security-industrial complex; Conclusion; 4. Crafting the neoliberal state: workfare, prisonfare and social insecurity*; When workfare joins prisonfare: theoretical implications.

Toward a sociological specification of neoliberalismConclusion: penality in the building of a centaur state; Part II. Public participation; 5. Pleasure, punishment and the professional middle class; Class formation in the punishing encounter; Humanitarian narratives and sovereign fantasies; Sentimental pleasures and obscene excitement; Class-specific or human, all too human?; 6. Penal spectatorship and the culture of punishment; Penal spectatorship; Penal culture; Prison iconography; Prison tourism; Prison archipelago; Conclusion: a way out?

7. Prison and the public sphere: toward a democratic theory of penal order*Mass incarceration / hyper-incarceration; Why prison?; Toward a democratic theory of penal order; Why democracy?; Civic engagement; De-democratisation; Mechanisms of civic engagement and penal policy; Race and democracy: black incorporation; Polarised public and harsh justice; Deliberative democracy and penal moderation; Concluding remarks; Part III. State detention; 8. The iron cage of prison studies; Rationale: why go beyond the penal institution?; Examples: varieties of imprisonment; Post-sentence detention.

Immigration detentionInternational zones; Theorisation: toward a post-penal account of imprisonment?; 1. The subject of imprisonment: from errant citizens to alien minds; 2. The motivation to imprison: from penal populism to the politics of hate; 3. The claim to imprison: from proportionality to degradation; Conclusion; 9. The prison and national identity: citizenship, punishment and the sovereign state*; A changing penal estate; A new detention apparatus; Narratives of national belonging; Conclusion.

10. Punishing the detritus and the damned: penal and semi-penal institutions in Liverpool and the North West.

Brings together some of the world's leading writers to engage with the most profound question in penology: why prison""

Includes bibliographies and index.

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