Poor Discipline

Name: Poor Discipline
Brand: University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226758565
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Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890-1990

Автор: Jonathan Simon

Език:

Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: University of Chicago Press

Наличност: Външен склад в ограничено количество

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This book reveals how modern strategies of punishment - and, by all accounts, their failure - relate...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Jonathan Simon

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

1993

страници

296

EAN

9780226758565

Enbook ID

04549395

Издател

University of Chicago Press

Теглоt

566

Размери

154 x 278 x 23

Пълно описание

This book reveals how modern strategies of punishment - and, by all accounts, their failure - relate to political and economic transformations in society at large. Jonathan Simon uses the practice of parole in California as a window to the changing historical understanding of what a corrections system does and how it works. When parole first emerged as a corrections strategy in the 19th century, work was supposed to keep ex-prisoners out of trouble. What followed was a rehabilitative strategy, where the clinical expertise of the parole agent replaced the discipline of the industrial labour market in controlling criminal deviance. Today, Simon argues, as the economy has virtually locked out an entire class, rehabilitation has given way to mere management. The result is an escalating cycle of imprisonment, destabilization, and insecurity. No improvement in the current penal crisis can be expected until we better understand the relationship between punishment and social order, which this book explores in theoretical, historical, and practical detail.

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