Buch, Englisch
ISBN: 978-0-335-24042-5
Verlag: Open University Press
- How have people conceptualised this penal controversy?
- What does the official data tell us and what are its limitations?
- What is its historical context?
- What are the contemporary policies of the Prison Service?
- Are they legitimate and, if not, what are the alternatives?
Ultimately the authors argue that in combination these controversial issues raise fundamental concerns about the legitimacy of the confinement project and the kind of society in which it is deemed essential. The book concludes with a discussion of why it remains important to make penal controversies visible, challenge penological illiteracy and provide alternative means of responding to human wrongdoing rooted in the principles of human rights and social justice.
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Preface
Thinking about controversial issues in prison
Prisoners with mental health problems
Women prisoners
Children and young people in custody
'Race', racism and foreign national prisoners
Self inflicted deaths
The treatment of people who sexually offend
Drug takers
Prisoners and their families
Beyond penal controversies and towards abolitionism
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