ABSTRACT
The governance of crime in transitional states, in what has been referred to as an anxious age, has become a major focus of inquiry for analysts of crime and criminal justice policy (see Teitel 2000; Crawford 2003). It is increasingly the case that following greater world security (and insecurity), informal social control relates to and connects to formal social control policies that have converged around risk. But what of the governance of prisons during transition? As Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 have demonstrated, the new modes of penal ideology and penal practice in Russia have significantly recast the process of administering imprisonment during transition.
