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Prisons and punishment

By alicia.warren
  • New Generation Jail Overview

    New Generation Jail Overview

    Zupan, L. L. and Menke, B. A. (1991) ‘The new generation jail: an overview’, in J. A. Thompson and G.L. Mays (eds.) American Jails: Public Policy Issues, Chicago: Nelson-Hall, pp. 180-194
  • Penal Politics

    Penal Politics

    Sparks, R. (1994) ‘Can prisons be legitimate? Penal politics, privatisation and the timeliness of an old idea’, British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 34 pp. 14-28 Abstract Full text link
  • Young people, culture and crime

    Young people, culture and crime

    Presdee, M. (1994) ‘Young people, culture and the construction of crime: doing wrong versus doing crime’, in Barak, G. (ed.) Varieties of Criminology, Westport, CT, Praeger. pp.179-187.
  • British childhood survey

    British childhood survey

    Hendrick, H. (1997) ‘Constructions and reconstructions of British childhood: an interpretative survey, 1800 to the present’, in James, A. and Proat, A. (eds) Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood, 2nd edn, Basingstoke, Falmer, pp.34-62.
  • Crime control as product

    Crime control as product

    Christie, N. (2000) ‘Crime control as a product’, from Crime Control as Industry 3e, London, Routledge, pp. 111-142
  • Professional ideology

    Professional ideology

    Cullen, F. T. and Gendreau, P. (2001) ‘From Nothing Works to What Works: changing professional ideology in the 21st century’, The Prison Journal 81: 313-338
  • Leftist project in Sweden

    Leftist project in Sweden

    Tham, H. (2002) ‘Law and order as a leftist project?: The case of Sweden’ Punishment and Society, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 409-426.
  • Penal micro economy

    Penal micro economy

    Piacentini, L. (2004) ‘Barter: Russia’s ‘penal micro-economy’ in Surviving Russian Prisons: Punishment, Economy and Politics in Transition, Cullompton, Willan p. 85 - 104 Abstract Full-text link
  • Representations of the young

    Representations of the young

    Griffin, C. (2004) ‘Representations of the young’ in Roche, J. Tucker, S., Thomson, R,. and Flynn, R. (eds) Youth in Society, 2nd edition, London, Sage. pp.10-18.
  • Policy and the punitive turn

    Policy and the punitive turn

    Goldson, B. (2005) ‘Taking liberties: Policy and the punitive turn’ in Hendrick, H. (ed) Child Welfare and Social Policy: An Essential Reader, Bristol Policy Press. pp. 255-267.
  • Comparative Penology

    Comparative Penology

    1. Cavadino, M. and Dignan, J. (2006) ‘Introducing comparative penology’, from Penal Systems: A Comparative Approach, London: Sage, pp.10-39
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  • Penal Populism

    Penal Populism

    Expertly drawing on international examples and existing literature, Penal Populism closes a gap in the field of criminology. In this fascinating expose of current crime policy John Pratt examines the role played by penal populism on trends in contemporary penal policy. Penal populism is associated with the public's decline of deference to the criminal justice establishment amidst alarm that crime is out of control. Pratt argues that new media technology is helping to spread national insecuritie