Punishment and Control in Historical Perspective [Paperback]

Bringing together new research, this book advances current theoretical understandings of punishment and control in society. It provides a critical analysis of institutions, punishment and the law, and explores the delivery of punishment and experience of incarceration in Western societies?from the early-nineteenth century.Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: Histories of Punishment and Control;? H.Johnston PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES Modernity, the New Republic and Sing Sing: The Creation of a Disciplined Workforce and Citizenry;? M.Fiddler Reconceptualising Social Control: A Case-Study in Gender, Punishment and Murder;? A.Ballinger An Honourable Regime of Truth? Foucault, Psychiatry and English Criminal Justice;? T.Ward PART II: PENAL POLICY, PRISON PRACTICE AND DISCOURSES ON OFFENDERS Moral Guardians? Prison Officers, Prison Practice and Ambiguity in the Nineteenth Century; H.Johnston The Man, the Machine and the Myths: Reconsidering Winston Churchill's Prison Reforms;? J.Bennett The Paradox of the 'Respectable Offender': Responding to the Problem of White-collar Crime in Victorian and Edwardian England; J.P.Locker Controlling the 'hopeless': Re-visioning the History of Female Inebriate Institutions c.1870-1920;? B.Morrison Punishment, Reformation, or Welfare: Responses to 'The Problem' of Juvenile Crime in Victorian and Edwardian Britain;? H.Shore PART III: CONFINEMENT, DISCIPLINE AND RESISTANCE Prisoner Memoirs and their Role in Prison History; S.Anderson?& J.Pratt Challenging Discipline and Control: A Comparative Analysis of Prison Riots at Chatham (1861) and Dartmoor (1932); A.Brown Resistance, Identity and Historical Change in Residential Institutions for Juvenile Delinquents, 1950-70;? A.Wills Concluding Remarks: 'The Punitive Turn': The Shape of Punishment and Control in Contemporary Society;? H.Johnston Bibliography Index

This book is an ideal resource for students and scholars of late Victorian/early Edwardian pel3/