Perspectives on Punishment : The Contours of Control

Scottish Criminology Conference (2003 : Edinburgh, Scotland) (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780199278770
Physical Description: print
xvii, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-259) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Audiences, Borders, Architecture: The Contours of Control -- 2. Ordinary Anxieties and States of Emergency: Statecraft and Spectatorship in the New Politics of Insecurity -- 3. Tony Martin and the Nightbreakers: Criminal Law, Victims, and the Power to Punish -- 4. European Identity, Penal Sensibilities, and Communities of Sentiment -- 5. Penalization, Depolitiziation, Racialization: On the Over-incarceration of Immigrants in the European Union -- 6. Prisons During Transition: Promoting a Common Penal Identity Through International Norms -- 7. Lex Vigilatoria--Towards a Control System without a State? -- 8. Welfare and Punishment in Comparative Perspective -- 9. Sentencing as a Social Practice -- 10. 'Architecture", Criminal Justice, and Control -- 11. Power, Social Control, and Psychiatry: Some Critical Reflections -- 12. Origins of Actuarial Justice