Introduction Chapter 1: The Origins of U.S. Imprisonment: Beyond the Penitentiary Colonial Justice The War of Independence (1775-1783) Prisons, Slavery and the Antebellum South Religious Reform in the North The Civil War Reconstruction Women's Prison Debating Imprisonment Conclusion Chapter 2: Penal Reform and Prison Science: Engineering Order and Building America Penal Reformism: The National Prison Association 'Prison Science': Reformism and Social Engineering The First World War: Conscientious Objectors and Prison The Federal Bureau of Prisons The Depression: Prisons, Labour and Social Structure World War II: Questions of National Security Women's Reformatories Reform, Science and Nation-Building Conclusion Chapter 3: Prison Culture: Sociology and Social Change The Prison Community Importation vs. Deprivation Gender Race Sexuality Research Methods, Governance and Social Control Conclusion: Contextualizing Sociological Accounts of Imprisonment Chapter 4: An Era of Uncertainty: Riots, Reform and Repression Attica Activism Before and After Attica The Administration of Justice The Demise of Rehabilitation Penal Revisionism and Prisoners' Rights: Theory v. Practice Conclusion Chapter 5: The Punitive Turn: Laying the Foundations for Mass Imprisonment The Reagan Years Legislating Punishment Private Prisons Prison Building and Supermax Challenging Imprisonment in an Era of Punitivism Conclusion Chapter 6: A Culture of Control Prisons and Politics in the 1990s Punishment and Modern Society: Explaining the Culture of Control Neo-conservatives, the Culture Wars and Prison Managing Prisons Experiencing Incarceration and Challenging the Culture of Control Conclusion Chapter 7: Challenging the Culture of Control? Prisons in the Twenty-first Century The Costs of Imprisonment: An Emerging Critique Prison Conditions and Public Safety The Courts: An Alternative Source of Critique Hurricane Katrina Governing Through Crime Opening the Prison: Convict Voices Conclusion: Governing Through Imprisonment? Chapter 8: The New Detention: Securing the Border Context The Law Detaining Immigrants The War on Terror Scholarly Accounts of the War on Terror: A Failure of the Criminological Imagination? Conclusion Conclusion.