Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2013 Hard cover Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. 381 p. Cambridge Studies in Law and Society. Audience: Professional and scholarly. LCCN 2013005147 Type of material Book Main title Why prison? / edited by David Scott. Published/Produced Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Description xxii, 381 pages; 24 cm. ISBN 9781107030749 LC classification HV8665. W43 2013 Related names Scott, David Gordon, editor of compilation. Contents Why prison? : posing the question / David Scott--Prisons and social structure in late-capitalist societies / Alessandro De Giorgi--The prison paradox in neoliberal britain / Emma Bell--Crafting the neoliberal state: workfare, prisonfare, and social insecurity / Loic Wacquant--Pleasure, punishment and the professional middle class / Magnus Hornqvist--Penal spectatorship and the culture of punishment / Michelle Brown--Prison and the public sphere: toward a democratic theory of penal order / Vanessa Barker--The iron cage of prison studies / Mark Brown--The prison and national identity: citizenship, punishment and the sovereign state / Emma Kaufman and Mary Bosworth--Punishing the detritus and the damned: penal and semi-penal institutions in liverpool / Vickie Cooper and Joe Sim--Why prison? : incarceration and the great recession / Keally McBride--Ghosts of the past, present, and future of penal reform in the United States / Marie Gottschalk--Schooling the carceral state: challenging the school to ...