Punishment and Control in Historical Perspective
Punishment and Control in Historical Perspective
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Author(s): Johnston, Helen
ISBN No.: 9780230549333
Pages: xii, 269
Year: 200810
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 79.05
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Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: Histories of Punishment and Control; H.Johnston PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES Modernity, the New Republic and Sing Sing: The Creation of a Disciplined Workforce and Citizenry; M.Fiddler Reconceptualising Social Control: A Case-Study in Gender, Punishment and Murder; A.Ballinger An Honourable Regime of Truth? Foucault, Psychiatry and English Criminal Justice; T.Ward PART II: PENAL POLICY, PRISON PRACTICE AND DISCOURSES ON OFFENDERS Moral Guardians? Prison Officers, Prison Practice and Ambiguity in the Nineteenth Century; H.Johnston The Man, the Machine and the Myths: Reconsidering Winston Churchill's Prison Reforms; J.Bennett The Paradox of the 'Respectable Offender': Responding to the Problem of White-collar Crime in Victorian and Edwardian Engl∧ J.P.


Locker Controlling the 'hopeless': Re-visioning the History of Female Inebriate Institutions c.1870-1920; B.Morrison Punishment, Reformation, or Welfare: Responses to 'The Problem' of Juvenile Crime in Victorian and Edwardian Britain; H.Shore PART III: CONFINEMENT, DISCIPLINE AND RESISTANCE Prisoner Memoirs and their Role in Prison History; S.Anderson & J.Pratt Challenging Discipline and Control: A Comparative Analysis of Prison Riots at Chatham (1861) and Dartmoor (1932); A.Brown Resistance, Identity and Historical Change in Residential Institutions for Juvenile Delinquents, 1950-70; A.Wills Concluding Remarks: 'The Punitive Turn': The Shape of Punishment and Control in Contemporary Society; H.


Johnston Bibliography Index.


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