Prison Readings: A Critical Introduction to Prison and Imprisonment Book

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction: prisons in context 1

Part A The emergence of the modern prison 13

Introduction 13

1 The body of the condemned Michel Foucault 18

2 The prison chaplain: Memoirs of Reverend John Clay Walter Lowe Clay 22

3 Women, crime and custody in Victorian England Lucia Zedner 30

4 Grinding men good? Lancashire's prisons at mid-century Margaret E. DeLacy 39

5 Victorian prison lives Philip Priestley 45

6 The well-ordered prison: England, 1780-1865 Randall McGowen 51

Part B Theoretical approaches and emerging trends 55

Introduction 55

7 Prison privatization: panacea or Pandora's box? Michael Cavadino James Dignan 60

8 Can prisons be legitimate? Penal politics, privatization, and the timeliness of an old idea Richard Sparks 71

9 Legitimacy and order in prisons Richard Sparks Anthony Bottoms 79

10 The rise and rise of supermax: an American solution in search of a problem? Roy D. King 84

11 Softly does it Sally Weale 94

12 The abolitionist approach: a British perspective Joe Sim 98

Part C Prison populations 105

Introduction 105

13 Tougher than the rest? Men in prison Joe Sim 109

14 Analysing women's imprisonment Pat Carlen Anne Worrall 121

15 From the inside Ruth Wyner 129

16 Racism in prisons Ben Bowling Coretta Phillips 135

17 Paramilitary imprisonment in Northern Ireland: resistance, management, and release Kieran McEvoy 138

18 From Borstal to YOI John Muncie 150

Part D The prison community 159

Introduction 159

19 The society of captives: a study of a maximum security prison Gresham M. Sykes 164

20 Asylums: essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates Erving Goffman 174

21 Time and deterioration Stanley Cohen Laurie Taylor 181

22 The defences of the weak: a sociological study of a Norwegian correctional institution Thomas Mathiesen 193

23 Mind games: where the action is in prisons Kathleen McDermott Roy D. King 202

24 Doing prison work: the public and private lives of prison officers Elaine Crawley 209

Part E Current controversies 223

Introduction 223

25 Social characteristics of prisoners 229

26 Suicides in prison: ten years on Alison Liebling 230

27 The drugs economy and the prisoner society Ben Crewe 237

28 Radical risk management, mental health and criminal justice Philip Fennell 245

29 Life as a woman: the gendered pains of indeterminate imprisonment Stephanie Walker Anne Worrall 253

30 United States of America: prison labour: a tale of two penologies James B. Jacobs 268

31 Prisoners' rights in the context of the European Convention on Human Rights Stephen Livingstone 276

Conclusion: prisons, public opinion and the 'new punitiveness' 283

Index 295