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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
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
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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bristol : Bristol University Press,c2024