Punishment and Control in Historical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780230549333 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 269 str.

Helen Johnston; Helen Johnston

Opis

Bringing together new research, this book advances current theoretical understandings of punishment and control in society. It provides a critical analysis of institutions, punishment and the law, and explores the delivery of punishment and experience of incarceration in Western societiesfrom the early-nineteenth century."

Recenzje

"This book is an ideal resource for students and scholars of late Victorian/early Edwardian penality . it also sets out an ambitious plan to provide a theoretical framework through which to assess these experiences, one which attempts to make new contributions to debates about the cultural importance of prison and the continuing relevance of a concept of social control." - Dr Sarah Armstrong, Senior Research Fellow, Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, Glasgow University, UK

"This fascinating collection contains essays by experienced and emerging scholars which explore some neglected topics of crime history. Yet it is those ignored topics which are today producing our most valuable insights into the history of offending and crime control." - Professor Barry Godfrey, Director, Research Institute of Law, Politics and Justice, Keele University, UK.

Spis treści

Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: Histories of Punishment and Control;  H.Johnston PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES Modernity, the New Republic and Sing Sing: The Creation of a Disciplined Workforce and Citizenry;  M.Fiddler Reconceptualising Social Control: A Case-Study in Gender, Punishment and Murder;  A.Ballinger An Honourable Regime of Truth? Foucault, Psychiatry and English Criminal Justice;  T.Ward PART II: PENAL POLICY, PRISON PRACTICE AND DISCOURSES ON OFFENDERS Moral Guardians? Prison Officers, Prison Practice and Ambiguity in the Nineteenth Century; H.Johnston The Man, the Machine and the Myths: Reconsidering Winston Churchill's Prison Reforms;  J.Bennett The Paradox of the 'Respectable Offender': Responding to the Problem of White-collar Crime in Victorian and Edwardian England; J.P.Locker Controlling the 'hopeless': Re-visioning the History of Female Inebriate Institutions c.1870-1920;  B.Morrison Punishment, Reformation, or Welfare: Responses to 'The Problem' of Juvenile Crime in Victorian and Edwardian Britain;  H.Shore PART III: CONFINEMENT, DISCIPLINE AND RESISTANCE Prisoner Memoirs and their Role in Prison History; S.Anderson & J.Pratt Challenging Discipline and Control: A Comparative Analysis of Prison Riots at Chatham (1861) and Dartmoor (1932); A.Brown Resistance, Identity and Historical Change in Residential Institutions for Juvenile Delinquents, 1950-70;  A.Wills Concluding Remarks: 'The Punitive Turn': The Shape of Punishment and Control in Contemporary Society;  H.Johnston Bibliography Index

O autorze

SARAH ANDERSON is a policy advisor at the Department of Corrections, New Zealand ANETTE BALLINGER is Lecturer in Criminology at Keele University, UK ALYSON BROWN is Reader in History at Edge Hill University, UK JAMIE BENNETT is a prison manager. He is currently undertaking a PhD with Edinburgh University, UK MICHAEL FIDDLER is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Greenwich, UK HELEN JOHNSTON is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Hull, UK JOHN P LOCKER is a senior researcher with New Zealand Police BRONWYN MORRISON is Senior Research Advisor for the Research, Evaluation and Modelling Unit at the Ministry of Justice, New Zealand JOHN PRATT is Professor of Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand HEATHER SHORE is Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural History at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK TONY WARD is Reader in Law at the University of Hull, UK ABIGAIL WILLS is a postdoctoral Career Development Fellow in History at Brasenose College, Oxford, UK