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  title info:
    title: What are prisons for?
  name:
    name part: Bhui, Hindpal Singh
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  table of contents: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. A Journey into Prisons -- Looking inside the prison to understandits purpose -- What should prisons be for? -- About this book -- 2. A Brief History of Imprisonment in the West -- The rise of the modern prison -- A triumph of humanitarianism? -- Foucault and the development of social control theories -- Discovering women in prison history -- 3. The Emergence of Prison around the World -- The colonial prison -- The relationship between racism, imprisonment and colonialism
  table of contents: Reforming the colonial prison -- Asserting a place in the world: Japan -- Building the economy: Russia -- Nation-building -- Overlapping purposes -- 4. Mass Incarceration, Race and Crime -- Penal populism and the 'war on drugs' -- Race and mass incarceration -- What effect did mass incarceration have on crime? -- Changing the narrative of mass imprisonment -- An obvious solution? -- 5. Do the Crime, Do the Time? Who Are Prisoners? -- Making choices to offend -- How is poverty linked to imprisonment? -- Mental ill health in prison -- Neurodiversity and traumatic brain injury in prisons
  table of contents: Implications -- 6. Experiencing Prison -- Arriving in prison: fear and anxiety -- Despair and suicide -- Dignity -- Identity -- The pains of imprisonment -- People who need prison? -- 7. Where Next for Prisons? -- The roots of penal enthusiasm: is prison inevitable? -- Exploring abolition -- More liberal reform? -- Too much democracy? -- Concluding thoughts -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index
  note: Hindpal Singh Bhui.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Prisons
  subject:
    topic: Prisons
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Prisons
    topic: Sociological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Imprisonment
  subject:
    topic: Imprisonment
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Alternatives to imprisonment
  subject:
    topic: Criminals
    topic: Rehabilitation
  subject:
    topic: Criminal justice, Administration of
  subject:
    topic: Corrections
  classification: HV8665 .B48 2024
  classification: 365
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      title: What is it for?
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    title info:
      title: What Are Prisons For?
    name:
      name part: Singh Bhui, Hindpal
    origin info:
      publisher: Bristol : Bristol University Press,c2024
  identifier: 9781529226911
  identifier: 1529226910
  identifier: 22573/cats9679448 JSTOR
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 240309
    record change date: 20240415134948.5
    record identifier: in00004786654