Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration: the revival of the prison

Cunneen, C; Baldry, E; Brown, D; Schwartz, M; Steel, A; Brown, M

Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration: the revival of the prison

Cunneen, C

Baldry, E Brown, D Schwartz, M Steel, A Brown, M

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Publisher:: Farnham, UK
Publication Type:: Book
Citation:: 2013, pp. 1-254
Issue Date:: 2013-10

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dc.contributor.author	Cunneen, C https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3348-9282
dc.contributor.author	Baldry, E
dc.contributor.author	Brown, D
dc.contributor.author	Schwartz, M
dc.contributor.author	Steel, A
dc.contributor.author	Brown, M
dc.date.accessioned	2021-09-25T01:46:43Z
dc.date.available	2021-09-25T01:46:43Z
dc.date.issued	2013-10
dc.identifier.citation	2013, pp. 1-254
dc.identifier.isbn	9781317082668
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/150697
dc.description.abstract	What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What changes have there been in penality and use of the prison over the past 40 years that have led to the re-valorization of the prison? Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book analyses international developments in penality and imprisonment. Authored by some of Australia’s leading penal theorists, the book examines the historical and contemporary influences on the use of the prison, with analyses of colonialism, post colonialism, race, and what they term the ’penal/colonial complex,’ in the construction of imprisonment rates and on the development of the phenomenon of hyperincarceration. They develop penal culture as an explanatory framework for continuity, change and difference in prisons and the nature of contested penal expansionism. The influence of transformative concepts such as ’risk management’, ’the therapeutic prison’, and ’preventative detention’ are explored as aspects of penal culture. Processes of normalization, transmission and reproduction of penal culture are seen throughout the social realm. Comparative, contemporary and historical in its approach, the book provides a new analysis of penality in the 21st century.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Farnham, UK
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Advances in Criminology
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dc.title	Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration: the revival of the prison
dc.type	Book
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What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What changes have there been in penality and use of the prison over the past 40 years that have led to the re-valorization of the prison? Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book analyses international developments in penality and imprisonment. Authored by some of Australia’s leading penal theorists, the book examines the historical and contemporary influences on the use of the prison, with analyses of colonialism, post colonialism, race, and what they term the ’penal/colonial complex,’ in the construction of imprisonment rates and on the development of the phenomenon of hyperincarceration. They develop penal culture as an explanatory framework for continuity, change and difference in prisons and the nature of contested penal expansionism. The influence of transformative concepts such as ’risk management’, ’the therapeutic prison’, and ’preventative detention’ are explored as aspects of penal culture. Processes of normalization, transmission and reproduction of penal culture are seen throughout the social realm. Comparative, contemporary and historical in its approach, the book provides a new analysis of penality in the 21st century.

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