Penal culture and hyperincarceration : the revival of the prison /

Penal culture and hyperincarceration : the revival of the prison /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cunneen, Chris, 1953-
Imprint:	Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2013] ©2013
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Advances in criminology Advances in criminology.
Subject:	Prisons. Prisons -- Australia. Corrections. Corrections -- Australia. Criminal justice, Administration of. Criminal justice, Administration of -- Australia. Corrections. Criminal justice, Administration of. Prisons. Australia. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11207263

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Other authors / contributors:	Baldry, Eileen. Brown, David, 1948- Schwartz, Melanie. Steel, Alex. Brown, Mark, 1965-
ISBN:	9781409447306 1409447308 9781409474838 1409474836 9781409447290 1409447294 1317082656 9781317082651
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English.
Summary:	Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book analyses international developments in penality and imprisonment. Authored by some of Australia's leading penal theorists, the book examines the historical and contemporary influences on the use of the prison, with analyses of colonialism, post colonialism, race, and what they term the 'penal/colonial complex', in the construction of imprisonment rates and on the development of the phenomenon of hyperincarceration. Comparative, contemporary and historical in its approach, the book provides a n.
Other form:	Print version: Cunneen, Chris, 1953- Penal culture and hyperincarceration. Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, 2013

Table of Contents:

Penal culture: the meaning of imprisonment
Global convictism and the postcolonial
Parliaments, courts and imprisonment rates
Correctional paradigms: the rise of risk
Suitable enemies: penal subjects
Reinvigorating the prison: new perspectives on containment
Penal culture: transmission, normalisation and reproduction
Winding back mass imprisonment?
Manifestations of contemporary penal culture.