ABSTRACT
The prison has long been a popular site of analysis. Jeremy Bentham portrayed it as central to the utilitarian vision of an ordered society (Bentham 1995). Lombroso and Ferrero found, calibrated and quantified their sample of criminogenic types there (LombrQso and Ferrero 1895). Interwar and postwar sociologists conducted detailed analyses of social organization and subcultures inside maximum secure establishments (Clemmer 1940; Sykes 1958; Giallombardo 1966a). Historians have mapped the prison's relationship to the development of capitalism (Ignatieff 1978; Melossi and Pavarini 1981). Foucault traced the roots and representations of the contemporary disciplinary society in its genealogy (Foucault 1979), and feminists uncovered continuities between women's domesticization throughout society and their treatment within penal institutions (Carlen 1983, 1985; Faith 1993). Most recently, prisons have become the locus of battles for and against the free market and privatization (Sparks 1994), and sites of analysis of the politics of managerialism (DiIulio 1987; Feeley and Simon 1992; Bottoms
will demonstrate in more detail, issues of identity inevitably arise once prisoners are recognized to be agents.
