by Deborah H. Drake - £23.99 Palgrave Macmillan (2014)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9781137455109 | ISBN 10: 1137455101
Winner of the British Society of Criminology Book Award, 2013.
Includes a new foreword by Professor Joe Sim, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.
Nation states around the globe are struggling with increasing concerns over human and global insecurity. Within this climate crime and criminal justice policies in many countries have become key areas of political focus, with the prison poised to play an important role in security strategies. This book problematises the persistent use of prisons and punishment and their role in pursuing higher levels of human security. Drawing on extensive, qualitative research in men's long-term, maximum-security prisons in England, questions are raised about the means by which security is pursued. The book argues against the use of severe sanctions as a means through which to calm public fears, achieve greater political legitimacy, and improve public security. By considering problems of security alongside those of long-term prisons, the book grapples with thorny and perennial problems associated with violence, vengeance and calls for punishment.
This new paperback edition includes a new foreword by Joe Sim, and will be a valuable resource to all scholars of Penology and Criminal Justice.
(Price & availability last checked: February 2015)
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