The sociology of punishment : socio-structural perspectives
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Abstract
Part 1 The classics: two laws of penal evolution, Emile Durkheim (1969) the psychology of punitive justice, George H. Mead (1964) labour market and penal sanction, Georg Rusche (1933) the decreasing prison population of England, Edwin H. Sutherland (1973) hypotheses in the sociology of punishment, Donald R. Cressey (1955) changes in penal values, Nils Christie (1968). Part 2 Measuring and comparing punishment: a comparison of prison use in England, Canada, West Germany and the United States - a limited test of the punitive hypothesis, James P. Lynch (1988) knowledge, domination and criminal punishment, Joachim J. Savelsberg (1994) cross-national imprisonment rates - limitations of method and possible conclusions, Ken Pease (1994) power concentration, legitimation crisis and penal severity - a comparative perspective?, Martin Killias (1986) the dynamics of a homeostatic punishment process, Alfred Blumstein et al (1977) the dynamics of oscillatory punishment processes, David F. Greenberg (1077) labour market and imprisonment, Ivan Jankovic (1977) a test of the stability of punishment hypothesis - the case of California, 1851-1970, Richard A. Berk et al (1981) economic crisis and the rising prisoner population in England and Wales, Steven Box and Chris Hale (1981) labour surplus and punishment - a review and assessment of theory and evidence, Theodore G. DeLone and Miriam A. Delone (1992). Part 3 Culture, history and changing vocabularies of punishment: gender, prisons and prison history, Nicole Rafter (1985) humantiarianism, labour exploitation or social control? a critical survey of theory and research on the origin and development of prisons, Robert P. Weiss (1987) frameworks of inquiry in the sociology of punishment, David Garland (1990) the new penology - notes on the emerging strategy of corrections and its implications, Jonathan Simon and Malcolm M. Feeley (1992) gazette of morality and social whip - punishment, hegemony and the case of the USA, 1970-92, Dario Melossi (1993) the new penology and politics in crisis - the Italian case, Massimo Pavarini (1994).