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Handbook on Prisons
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ABSTRACT
The second edition of the Handbook on Prisons provides a completely revised and updated collection of essays on a wide range of topics concerning prisons and imprisonment. Bringing together three of the leading prison scholars in the UK as editors, this new volume builds on the success of the first edition and reveals the range and depth of prison scholarship around the world.
The Handbook contains chapters written not only by those who have established and developed prison research, but also features contributions from ex-prisoners, prison governors and ex-governors, prison inspectors and others who have worked with prisoners in a wide range of professional capacities. This second edition includes several completely new chapters on topics as diverse as prison design, technology in prisons, the high security estate, therapeutic communities, prisons and desistance, supermax and solitary confinement, plus a brand new section on international perspectives. The Handbook aims to convey the reality of imprisonment, and to reflect the main issues and debates surrounding prisons and prisoners, while also providing novel ways of thinking about familiar penal problems and enhancing our theoretical understanding of imprisonment.
The Handbook on Prisons, Second edition is a key text for students taking courses in prisons, penology, criminal justice, criminology and related subjects, and is also an essential reference for academics and practitioners working in the prison service, or in related agencies, who need up-to-date knowledge of thinking on prisons and imprisonment.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Part I|142 pages
Prisons in context
chapter Chapter 2|15 pages
Prison histories, 1770s–1950s
chapter Chapter 4|22 pages
The politics of imprisonment
chapter Chapter 7|17 pages
Prison design and carceral space
chapter Chapter 8|16 pages
Prison managerialism
part Part II|160 pages
Prison controversies
chapter Chapter 10|18 pages
Segregation and supermax confinement
chapter Chapter 13|22 pages
Suicide, distress and the quality of prison life
chapter Chapter 16|23 pages
Prisons and technology
part Part III|168 pages
International perspectives on imprisonment
chapter Chapter 19|19 pages
An international overview of the initiatives to accommodate Indigenous prisoners
chapter Chapter 20|16 pages
Ironies of American imprisonment
chapter Chapter 22|15 pages
Prisons as welfare institutions?
chapter Chapter 25|19 pages
Asian prisons
part Part IV|130 pages
The penal spectrum
chapter Chapter 27|20 pages
High security prisons in England and Wales
chapter Chapter 31|19 pages
Doing gendered time
part Part V|129 pages
Beyond the prison