Prisons during transition: Promoting a common penal identity through international norms

Piacentini, Laura; Armstrong, Sarah and McAra, Lesley, eds. (2006) Prisons during transition: Promoting a common penal identity through international norms. In: Perspectives on punishment: the contours of control. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 101-118. ISBN 0199278776

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Abstract

The book offers an incisive collection of contemporary research into the problems of crime control and punishment. It has three inter-related aims: to take stock of current thinking on punishment, regulation, and control in the early years of a new century and in the wake of a number of critical junctures, including 9/11, which have transformed the social, political, and cultural environment; to present a selection of the diverse epistemological and methodological frameworks which inform current research; and finally to set out some fruitful directions for the future study of punishment. The contributions to this collection cover some of the most exciting and challenging areas of current research including terrorism and the politics of fear, penality in societies in transition, penal policy and the construction of political identity, the impact of digital culture on modes of compliance, the emergent hegemony of information and surveillance systems, and the evolving politics of victimhood. Taken together, this work draws connections between local problems of crime control, transnational forms of governance, and the ways in which certain political and jurisprudential discourses have come to dominate policy and practice in western penal systems

ORCID iDs

Piacentini, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3817-6012; Armstrong, Sarah and McAra, Lesley
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