The Politics of Prison Crowding: A Critical Analysis of the Italian Prison System

ISBN-13: 9780367467791 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 224 str.

UK) Santorso Simone (University of Sussex

Opis

The Politics of Prison Crowding investigates recent transformations in Italy’s penal system to make the key analytical observation that conditions of overcrowding have become the ‘new normal’ under which the modern prison system continues to operate and deliver punishment.

O autorze

Simone Santorso is a lecturer at the University of Sussex. Simone’s principal research interests are punishment, prison, and detention. Additionally, he has been a principal or co-investigator on research projects on prison and punishment, gang and organised crime, and police and technology. Simone’s research brings together theoretical concepts, findings and insights from a variety of disciplinary fields, especially sociology, anthropology, law, and history. He is the author of several journal articles, reports, chapters, and books and is a founding member of the European Prison Observatory.