Punishment in America Social Control and the Ironies of Imprisonment [Hardcover]

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.

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.

Foreword - Todd R Clear
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
Exploring Institutional Biases in Corrections
The War on Drugs and Correctional Warehousing
Alternative Strategies for the Drug Crisis
Regulating the Reproduction and Morality of Women
The Social Control of Body and Soul
Jail Overcrowding
Social Sanitation and the Warehousing of the Urban Underclass
A Critical Interpretation of Correctional Bootcamps as Normalizing Institutions
Discipline, Punishment and the Military Model
The Brutal Truth
The Reproduction of Prison Violence and the Ironies of Social Control
The Machinery of Death
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