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      Handbook on Prisons book

      Edited ByYvonne Jewkes, Ben Crewe, Jamie Bennett
      Edition 2nd Edition
      First Published 2016
      eBook Published 24 February 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315797779
      Pages 776
      eBook ISBN 9781315797779
      Subjects Law, Social Sciences
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      Jewkes, Y., Crewe, B., & Bennett, J. (Eds.). (2016). Handbook on Prisons (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315797779

      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

      chapter |4 pages

      Introduction

      ByYvonne Jewkes, Ben Crewe, Jamie Bennett

      part Part I|142 pages

      Prisons in context

      chapter Chapter 1|17 pages

      Prisons in context

      ByAndrew Coyle

      chapter Chapter 2|15 pages

      Prison histories, 1770s–1950s

      Continuities and contradictions
      ByHelen Johnston

      chapter Chapter 3|16 pages

      The aims of imprisonment

      ByIan O'Donnell

      chapter Chapter 4|22 pages

      The politics of imprisonment

      ByRichard Sparks, Jessica Bird, Louise Brangan

      chapter Chapter 5|24 pages

      The sociology of imprisonment

      ByBen Crewe

      chapter Chapter 6|13 pages

      Prison expansionism

      ByDeborah H. Drake

      chapter Chapter 7|17 pages

      Prison design and carceral space

      ByDominique Moran, Yvonne Jewkes, Jennifer Turner

      chapter Chapter 8|16 pages

      Prison managerialism

      Global change and local cultures in the working lives of prison managers
      ByJamie Bennett

      part Part II|160 pages

      Prison controversies

      chapter Chapter 9|20 pages

      Private prisons

      ByJohn Rynne, Richard Harding

      chapter Chapter 10|18 pages

      Segregation and supermax confinement

      An ethical evaluation
      ByDerek S. Jeffreys

      chapter Chapter 11|18 pages

      Mental health in prisons

      ByAlice Mills, Kathleen Kendall

      chapter Chapter 12|19 pages

      Drug misuse in prison

      ByMichael Wheatley

      chapter Chapter 13|22 pages

      Suicide, distress and the quality of prison life

      ByAlison Liebling, Amy Ludlow

      chapter Chapter 14|19 pages

      Sex offenders in prison

      ByRuth E. Mann

      chapter Chapter 15|19 pages

      The prison officer

      ByHelen Arnold

      chapter Chapter 16|23 pages

      Prisons and technology

      General lessons from the American context
      ByRobert Johnson, Katie Hail-Jares

      part Part III|168 pages

      International perspectives on imprisonment

      chapter Chapter 17|15 pages

      Punishment and political economy

      ByEster Massa

      chapter Chapter 18|16 pages

      Prisons and human rights

      ByPeter Bennett

      chapter Chapter 19|19 pages

      An international overview of the initiatives to accommodate Indigenous prisoners

      ByElizabeth Grant

      chapter Chapter 20|16 pages

      Ironies of American imprisonment

      From capitalizing on prisons to capital punishment
      ByMichael Welch

      chapter Chapter 21|13 pages

      Houses for the poor

      Continental European prisons
      ByVincenzo Ruggiero

      chapter Chapter 22|15 pages

      Prisons as welfare institutions?

      Punishment and the Nordic model
      ByThomas Ugelvik

      chapter Chapter 23|20 pages

      Australasian prisons

      ByClaire Spivakovsky

      chapter Chapter 24|18 pages

      Prisons in Africa

      ByAndrew M. Jefferson, Tomas Max Martin

      chapter Chapter 25|19 pages

      Asian prisons

      Colonial pasts, neo-liberal futures and subversive sites
      ByMahuya Bandyopadhyay

      chapter Chapter 26|15 pages

      Latin American prisons

      BySacha Darke, Maria Lúcia Karam

      part Part IV|130 pages

      The penal spectrum

      chapter Chapter 27|20 pages

      High security prisons in England and Wales

      Principles and practice
      ByAlison Liebling

      chapter Chapter 28|17 pages

      Therapeutic communities

      ByAlisa Stevens

      chapter Chapter 29|15 pages

      Older age, harder time

      Ageing and imprisonment
      ByNatalie Mann

      chapter Chapter 30|20 pages

      Young people and prison

      ByRob Allen

      chapter Chapter 31|19 pages

      Doing gendered time

      The harms of women's incarceration
      ByLinda Moore, Phil Scraton

      chapter Chapter 32|18 pages

      Race, ethnicity, multiculture and prison life

      ByRod Earle

      chapter Chapter 33|19 pages

      The prisoner

      Inside and out
      ByJason Warr

      part Part V|129 pages

      Beyond the prison

      chapter Chapter 34|15 pages

      Prisons and desistance

      ByFergus McNeill, Marguerite Schinkel

      chapter Chapter 35|19 pages

      Social injustice and collateral damage

      The families and children of prisoners
      ByRachel Condry, Anna Kotova, Shona Minson

      chapter Chapter 36|18 pages

      Inspecting the prison

      ByNick Hardwick

      chapter Chapter 37|18 pages

      Researching the prison

      ByYvonne Jewkes, Serena Wright

      chapter Chapter 38|21 pages

      Representing the prison

      ByEamonn Carrabine

      chapter Chapter 39|14 pages

      Imprisonment in a global world

      Rethinking penal power
      ByMary Bosworth, Inês Hasselberg, Sarah Turnbull

      chapter Chapter 40|22 pages

      Campaigning for and campaigning against prisons

      Excavating and reaffirming the case for prison abolition
      ByMick Ryan, Joe Sim
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