ABSTRACT
Focusing on three key stages of the criminal justice process, discipline, punishment and desistance, and incorporating case studies from Asia, the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia, the thirteen chapters in this collection are based on exciting new research that explores the evolution and adaptation of criminal justice and penal systems, largely from the early nineteenth century to the present. They range across the disciplinary boundaries of History, Criminology, Law and Penology.
Journeying into and unlocking different national and international penal archives, and drawing on diverse analytical approaches, the chapters forge new connections between historical and contemporary issues in crime, prisons, policing and penal cultures, and challenge traditional Western democratic historiographies of crime and punishment and categorisations of offenders, police and ex-offenders.
The individual chapters provide new perspectives on race, gender, class, urban space, surveillance, policing, prisonisation and defiance, and will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of criminal justice, law, police, transportation, slavery, offenders and desistance from crime.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|96 pages
Discipline
chapter 1|17 pages
‘Insufficiently cruel' or ‘simply inefficient’?
chapter 2|15 pages
‘Who's really wicked and immoral, women or men?’
chapter 3|15 pages
At “war against our institutions”
chapter 4|14 pages
‘Thank goodness Habeas Corpus did not run in Nahud'
chapter 5|18 pages
Policing in Hong Kong and Macau
chapter 6|15 pages
“A holy panic”
part II|49 pages
Punishment
chapter 9|18 pages
“A perfect hell of misery”
part III|67 pages
Desistance