By David Scott
Felony reviews has skilled a interval of significant creativity in recent times, and this assortment attracts jointly a number of the field's most enjoyable and leading edge modern serious writers so that it will have interaction at once with essentially the most profound questions in penology - why legal? In addressing this query, the authors attach modern penological idea with an enquiry that has bought the eye of a few of the best thinkers on punishment long ago. via severe exploration of the theories, regulations and practices of imprisonment, the authors examine why felony persists and why prisoner populations are speedily emerging in lots of international locations. jointly, the chapters offer not just a cosmopolitan prognosis and critique of worldwide hyper-incarceration but additionally recommend ideas and techniques that may be followed to appreciably lessen our reliance upon imprisonment.
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Indeed such are the consequences of the fiscal crisis, such as in the state of California, that today the logic of economic rationality may have become useful for those calling for radical reductions in prisoner populations. In Chapter 12, Marie Gottschalk highlights how the political agendas of four social movements in the USA have been exploited or manipulated by government organisations and law enforcement groups to ratchet up penalisation. The retributive victims’ rights movement has been grounded in a ‘zero-sum game predicated on tougher penalties for offenders’; the women’s movement has made problematic alliances with the punitive lobby, fostering a reductive analysis of gendered violence as individual pathology; the prisoners’ rights movement created a ‘racially charged political atmosphere’ leading to a backlash from conservatives and a lockdown on political activism behind bars; and the campaign to abolish capital punishment has brought ‘popular sentiments and passions’ to the forefront of the formation of 20 WHY PRISON?
Chapter 9, by Emma Kaufman and Mary Bosworth, examines the hypothesis that prison and immigration detention perform a central role in the (re)production of the nation state. Identifying a major escalation in the control of ‘non-citizens’ in Britain since the mid 1990s, they explore the emergence of a symbiotic relationship between these two forms of state detention. Whilst still recognising that prison and immigration detention are distinct entities, they point to their similar mission to classify and contain those ‘non-citizens’ who should be excluded in the interests of national sovereignty.
1). However, I would argue that such a mechanical translation of the materialist framework raises some important questions, particularly from the point of view of the structural analysis of late-capitalist societies. 2 This model of capitalist development was based on mass industrial production, highly regulated labour markets and a potentially expansive system of social welfare based on a clear distinction between employment and ‘unemployment’. During the last three decades, however, this industrial-welfarist paradigm has been deeply transformed by the 2 The concept of ‘capitalist regime of accumulation’ has been introduced by political economists belonging to the so-called ‘regulation school’ (see Aglietta, 1979; Jessop, 1990a).