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Explaining U. S. Imprisonment

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ISBN-10: 1412924871

ISBN-13: 9781412924870

Edition: 2010

Authors: Mary F. Bosworth

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Explaining U.S. Imprisonment builds on and extends some of the contemporary issues of women in prison, minorities, and the historical path to modern prisons as well as the social influences on prison reform.
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List price: $68.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Explaining U.S. Imprisonment
Statistical Overview
The Culture of Control
Methodology
The Structure of Explanation
Conclusion
Notes
The Origins of U.S. Imprisonment: Beyond the Penitentiary
Colonial Justice
The War of Independence (1775-1783)
Prisons, Slavery, and the Antebellum South
Religious Reform in the North
The Civil War
Reconstruction and Beyond
Women's Prisons
Debating Imprisonment
Conclusion
Notes
Penal Reform and Prison Science: Engineering Order and Building America
Penal Reformism: The National Prison Association
"Prison Science": Reformism and Social Engineering
The First World War: Conscientious Objectors and Prison
The Federal Bureau of Prisons
The Depression: Prisons, Labor, and Social Structure
World War II: Questions of National Security
Women's Reformatories
Reform, Science, and Nation-Building
Conclusion
Notes
Prison Culture: Sociology and Social Change
The Prison Community
Importation Versus Deprivation
Gender
Race
Sexuality
Research Methods, Governance, and Social Control
Conclusion: Contextualizing Sociological Accounts of Imprisonment
Notes
An Era of Uncertainty: Riots, Reform, and Repression
Attica
Activism Before and After Attica
The Administration of Justice
The Demise of Rehabilitation
Penal Revisionism and Prisoners' Rights: Theory Versus Practice
Conclusion
Notes
The Punitive Turn: Laying the Foundations for Mass Imprisonment
The Reagan Years
Legislating Punishment
Private Prisons
Prison Building and Supermax
Challenging Imprisonment in an Era of Punitivism
Conclusion
Notes
A Culture of Control
Prisons and Politics in the 1990s
Punishment and Modern Society: Explaining the Culture of Control
Neoconservatives, the Culture Wars, and Prison
Managing Prisons
Experiencing Incarceration and Challenging the Culture of Control
Conclusion
Notes
Challenging the Culture of Control?
Prisons in the 21st Century
The Costs of Imprisonment: An Emerging Critique
Prison Conditions and Public Safety
The Courts: An Alternative Source of Critique
Hurricane Katrina
Governing Through Crime
Opening the Prison: Convict Voices
Conclusion: Governing Through Imprisonment?
Notes
The New Detention: Securing the Border
Context
The Law
Detaining Immigrants
The War on Terror
Scholarly Accounts of the War on Terror: A Failure of the Criminological Imagination?
Conclusion
Notes
Conclusion. Where To From Here?
Prisons, History, and Paradox
Securing the Nation in Troubled Times
Prisons and the State
Notes
References
Index
About the Author