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1 online resource (273 pages) |
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Cover; Copyright and publications details; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; About the author; The author of the Foreword; Foreword; Preface; Against Imprisonment; The penal utopia (or how we learn to stop worrying and to love the prison); The penal dystopia (or punishing the poor with a good conscience); Table 1: Social Background of Prisoners in England and Wales in 2016; The point is to change it (or act upon a bad conscience); Walking Among the Graves of the Living; Learning from the chaplains; Bearing witness to denial; Contradictions, tensions and abolitionist praxis. |
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Escaping the Logic of â#x80;#x9C;Crimeâ#x80;#x9D;Ontological reality; People in glass houses should not throw stones; Responsibilities for the Other; Confronting the logic of â#x80;#x9C;crimeâ#x80;#x9D;; Justifications of Punishment and Questions of Penal Legitimacy; Consequentialism; Retributivism; Abolitionism; Table 2: â#x80;#x9C;Criminal Justiceâ#x80;#x9D; or Restorative Justice Values?; The magicianâ#x80;#x99;s trick; The Changing Face of the Prison; Less eligibility and the treatment and training ideology; The crisis of containment; The end of an era; The liberal penological consensus; The Woolf agenda; Back from the future. |
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Coming full circleFrom â#x80;#x9C;Rehabilitation Revolutionâ#x80;#x9D; to â#x80;#x9C;Safety and Reformâ#x80;#x9D;; Riding on the penal merry-go-round; Problematising â#x80;#x9C;Common-senseâ#x80;#x9D; Understandings of Prison Violence; Constructing the narrative; Table 3: Proportion of Sampled Articles Including Prison Officer Voice; Prison safety and reform; Table 4: Number of Staff in 143 prisons in 1835; Table 5: Fatal and Serious Accidents and Occupations in 1923; Always report assaults; Contextualising the past: beyond agnosis, silencing and denial; Contesting the Spirit of Death; Civil death; Social death; Corporeal death. |
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Contesting the spirit of deathA matter of life and death; Saying NO to the Mega-prison; HMP Hindley: The worst prison in the country; Sentencing the poor to a life of misery; Table 6: Examples of Prison Rates in the Most Deprived Areas; Table 7: Examples of Prison Rates in the Least Deprived Areas; Welfare cuts and prison bruises; The toxic mega-prison; Invest in communities, not prisons; Unequalled in Pain; Economic and social inequalities; Tough talk, suitable enemies and the punitive trap; Conclusion: What is to be done?; Bibliography; Index; The Maze Prison; Suicide in Prisons. |
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Transgender Behind Prison WallsJourney to Release; Prison on Trial; Back cover. |
| Summary |
Provides a compelling analysis of the failings of imprisonment. Sheds new light on this pressing topic. Explains why prisons do not work for most offenders. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Imprisonment -- Philosophy.
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Imprisonment -- Philosophy. |
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Imprisonment. |
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Electronic books.
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Bell, Emma.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Scott, David. Against Imprisonment : An Anthology of Abolitionist Essays. Hook : Waterside Press, ©2018 9781909976542 |
| ISBN |
9781910979532 (electronic book) |
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1910979538 (electronic book) |
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9781910979549 (electronic book) |
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1910979546 (electronic book) |
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1909976547 |
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9781909976542 |
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