Transnational Penal Cultures New perspectives on discipline, punishment and desistance

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Synopsis

Focusing on three key stages of the criminal justice process, discipline, punishment and desistance, and incorporating case studies from Asia, the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia, the thirteen chapters in this collection are based on exciting new research that explores the evolution and adaptation of criminal justice and penal systems, largely from the early nineteenth century to the present. They range across the disciplinary boundaries of History, Criminology, Law and Penology.
Journeying into and unlocking different national and international penal archives, and drawing on diverse analytical approaches, the chapters forge new connections between historical and contemporary issues in crime, prisons, policing and penal cultures, and challenge traditional Western democratic historiographies of crime and punishment and categorisations of offenders, police and ex-offenders.
The individual chapters provide new perspectives on race, gender, class, urban space, surveillance, policing, prisonisation and defiance, and will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of criminal justice, law, police, transportation, slavery, offenders and desistance from crime.

Book details

Series:
Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
Author:
Vivien Miller, James Campbell
ISBN:
9781317807193
Related ISBNs:
9781315815312, 9781138288423, 9781138288423, 9780415741316, 9780415741316
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2020-02-07
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2015
Copyright by:
selection and editorial material, Vivien Miller and James Campbell 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies