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Punishment in America
Social Control and the Ironies of Imprisonment
- Michael Welch - Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
August 1999 | 344 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
In Punishment in America Michael Welch gathers together his seminal contributions to the most crucial and controversial issues in criminal justice. Topics range from the war on drugs, boot camps and institutional violence to AIDS and HIV, capital punishment and the entire corrections industry.
This coherent, but critical vision of punishment and corrections emphasizes social control but takes account of key social forces such as politics, religion and morality.
Todd R Clear
Foreword
Discovery of the Penitentiary and Emergence of Social Control
Critical Criminology, Social Justice and an Alternative View of Incarceration
The Contours of Race, Social Class and Punishment
The War on Drugs and Correctional Warehousing
Regulating the Reproduction and Morality of Women
Jail Overcrowding
A Critical Interpretation of Correctional Bootcamps as Normalizing Institutions
The Brutal Truth
The Machinery of Death
The Poverty of Interest in Huamn Rights Violations in US Prisons
Prisoners with HIV/AIDS
The Immigration Crisis
The Corrections Industry