Research Catalog

Title

Perspectives on punishment : the contours of control / edited by Sarah Armstrong and Lesley McAra.

Author

Scottish Criminology Conference (2003 : Edinburgh, Scotland)

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Armstrong, Sarah.
• McAra, Lesley.

Description

xvii, 276 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book offers a collection of contemporary research into the problems of crime control and punishment. It has three interrelated aims: to take stock of current thinking on punishment, regulation, and control in the early years of a new century and in the wake of a number of critical junctures including 9/11, which have transformed the social, political, and cultural environment; to present a selection of the diverse epistemological and methodological frameworks which inform current research; and finally to set out some fruitful directions for the future study of punishment."--Jacket.

Subject

• Punishment > Congresses
• Punishment > Europe > Congresses
• Social control > Congresses
• Criminal justice, Administration of > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Revisions of papers originally presented at the Scottish Criminology Conference held Sept. 2003 in Edinburgh.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-259) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Audiences, borders, architecture : the contours of control / Sarah Armstrong and Lesley McAra -- Ordinary anxieties and states of emergency : statecraft and spectatorship in the new politics of insecurity / Richard Sparks -- Tony Martin and the nightbreakers : criminal law, victims, and the power to punish / Lindsay Farmer -- European identity, penal sensibilities, and communities of sentiment / Evi Girling -- Penalization, depoliticization, racialization : on the over-incarceration of immigrants in the European Union / Loïc Wacquant -- Prisons during transition : promoting a common penal identity through international norms / Laura Piacentini -- Lex vigilatoria : towards a control system without a state? / Thomas Mathiesen -- Welfare and punishment in comparative perspective / David Downes and Kirstine Hansen -- Sentencing as a social practice / Neil Hutton -- 'Architecture', criminal justice, and control / Richard Jones -- Power, social control, and psychiatry : some critical reflections / Andrew Scull -- Origins of actuarial justice / Malcolm Feeley.

ISBN

• 0199278768 (hbk.)
• 0199278776 (pbk.)
• 9780199278763 (hbk.)
• 9780199278770 (pbk.)
• 9780199278763
• 9780199278770

LCCN

^^2006016669

OCLC

• 69593931
• SCSB-10223635

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library