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Punishment and social control
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- Creator
- Thomas G. Blomberg and Stanley Cohen, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Enlarged second edition
- New York : Aldine de Gruyter, [2003]
- ©2003
- Series
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- x, 516 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780202307015, 0202307018
- OCLC
- ocm51607275
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 1. State Punishment in Advanced Capitalist Countries / Richard Sparks -- 2. Penal Modernism and Postmodernism / David Garland -- 3. The Form and Limits of the New Penology / Jonathan Simon and Malcolm M. Feeley -- 4. Virginia, Criminology, and the Antisocial Control of Women / Pat Carlen -- 5. Controlling Drug Use: The Great Prohibition / David Matza and Patricia Morgan -- 6. Staffing and Training Problem-Oriented Police / Egon Bittner -- 7. Developments in Undercover Policing / Gary T. Marx -- 8. Surveillance and Social Control in Postmodern Life / William G. Staples -- 9. On Controlling Torture / Jerome H. Skolnick -- 10. Statistical Assumptions as Empirical Commitments / Richard A. Berk and David A. Freedman -- 11. Stability of Punishment: What Happened and What Next? / Alfred Blumstein -- 12. The Future of the Proportionate Sentence / Andrew von Hirsch -- 13. Constricted Rationality and the Limits of General Deterrence / Gary Kleck -- 14. Tinkering with the Machinery of Death: The Failure of a Social Experiment / Gordon P. Waldo and Raymond Paternoster -- 15. The Structural-Functional Perspective on Imprisonment / Gresham M. Sykes -- 16. Woman and Imprisonment: A Case Study of Two California Prisons / Rosemary Gartner and Candace Kruttschnitt -- 17. Judicial Impact on Prison Reform / James B. Jacobs -- 18. The Crime of Punishment / David J. Rothman -- 19. Penal Reform and the Fate of "Alternatives" / Thomas G. Blomberg -- 20. It's About Time: America's Imprisonment Binge / James Austin, John Irwin and Charis E. Kubrin -- 21. America's New "Peculiar Institution": On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto / Loic Wacquant -- 22. Of Punishment and Crime Rates: Some Theoretical and Methodological Consequences of Mass Incarceration / Elliott Currie