What Are Prisons For?
Hindpal Singh Bhui argues that we need to look at who is sent to prison and why to disentangle reality from ideology and myth. Including the voices of prisoners, prison staff and victims, he asks whether prison is an institution for managing marginalized people, or if there is a better way to achiev...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Bristol
Bristol University Press
2024
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| En: | Año: 2024 |
| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Sumario: | Hindpal Singh Bhui argues that we need to look at who is sent to prison and why to disentangle reality from ideology and myth. Including the voices of prisoners, prison staff and victims, he asks whether prison is an institution for managing marginalized people, or if there is a better way to achieve the socially useful goals of prisons. 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. "What does a good prison look like? More than eleven million people are currently locked up in prisons across the world, but does that mean that prison actually works? The answer usually depends on what people believe and feel about crime, punishment and what happens inside prisons. The deep social and personal impact of prisons demands that we try to search for a better understanding of the evidence and ideas that have made prisons so ubiquitous. Hindpal Singh Bhui, with 25 years' experience of visiting and working in prisons worldwide, argues that we need to look at who is sent there and why, to disentangle reality from ideology and myth. Introducing the competing histories of prisons and allowing the voices of prisoners, prison staff and victims to be heard, he asks whether there is a better way to achieve what society wants from its prisons." -- |
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| Notas: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (183 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781529226911 |