Roger Matthews is Professor of Criminology at London South Bank University, UK. He is Head of the Crime Reduction and Community Safety Research Group. He is sole author of Armed Robbery and Prostitution, Politics and Policy. He has also produced joint authored texts on community safety and edited a number of books on criminological theory, imprisonment and crime control.

• Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; P.Francis & R.Matthews - The State of the Prisons ; S.Tumin - Prison in Crisis: The American Experience; F.Cullen, P.Van Voorhis & J.L.Sundt - We Never Promised Them a Rose Garden; M.Platek - Penal Austerity: The Doctrine of Less Eligibility; R.Sparks - Modernity, Imprisonment and Social Solidarity; W.Morrison - The Changing Functions of Imprisonment; C.Faugeron - Foreign Detainees in Greek Prison: A New Challenge to the Guardian of Human Rights; C.Spinellis, K.Angelopoulou & N.Koulouris - Ethnic Minorities in British Prisons: Some Research Implications; M.Fitzgerald & P.Marshall - Is There a Feminist Future for Womens Prisons?; M.Shaw - Womens Imprisonment in England and Wales at the End of the Twentieth Century: Legitimacy, Realities and Utopias; P.Carlen & C.Tchaicovsky - The Russian Prison System: Past Present and Future; A.S.Mikhlin & R.King - Prison Privatisation: An International Perspective; K.Beyens & S.Snacken - Index

Roger Matthews is Professor of Criminology at London South Bank University, UK. He is Head of the Crime Reduction and Community Safety Research Group. He is sole author of Armed Robbery and Prostitution, Politics and Policy. He has also produced joint authored texts on community safety and edited a number of books on criminological theory, imprisonment and crime control.

• Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; P.Francis & R.Matthews - The State of the Prisons ; S.Tumin - Prison in Crisis: The American Experience; F.Cullen, P.Van Voorhis & J.L.Sundt - We Never Promised Them a Rose Garden; M.Platek - Penal Austerity: The Doctrine of Less Eligibility; R.Sparks - Modernity, Imprisonment and Social Solidarity; W.Morrison - The Changing Functions of Imprisonment; C.Faugeron - Foreign Detainees in Greek Prison: A New Challenge to the Guardian of Human Rights; C.Spinellis, K.Angelopoulou & N.Koulouris - Ethnic Minorities in British Prisons: Some Research Implications; M.Fitzgerald & P.Marshall - Is There a Feminist Future for Womens Prisons?; M.Shaw - Womens Imprisonment in England and Wales at the End of the Twentieth Century: Legitimacy, Realities and Utopias; P.Carlen & C.Tchaicovsky - The Russian Prison System: Past Present and Future; A.S.Mikhlin & R.King - Prison Privatisation: An International Perspective; K.Beyens & S.Snacken - Index

Roger Matthews is Professor of Criminology at London South Bank University, UK. He is Head of the Crime Reduction and Community Safety Research Group. He is sole author of Armed Robbery and Prostitution, Politics and Policy. He has also produced joint authored texts on community safety and edited a number of books on criminological theory, imprisonment and crime control.

• Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; P.Francis & R.Matthews - The State of the Prisons ; S.Tumin - Prison in Crisis: The American Experience; F.Cullen, P.Van Voorhis & J.L.Sundt - We Never Promised Them a Rose Garden; M.Platek - Penal Austerity: The Doctrine of Less Eligibility; R.Sparks - Modernity, Imprisonment and Social Solidarity; W.Morrison - The Changing Functions of Imprisonment; C.Faugeron - Foreign Detainees in Greek Prison: A New Challenge to the Guardian of Human Rights; C.Spinellis, K.Angelopoulou & N.Koulouris - Ethnic Minorities in British Prisons: Some Research Implications; M.Fitzgerald & P.Marshall - Is There a Feminist Future for Womens Prisons?; M.Shaw - Womens Imprisonment in England and Wales at the End of the Twentieth Century: Legitimacy, Realities and Utopias; P.Carlen & C.Tchaicovsky - The Russian Prison System: Past Present and Future; A.S.Mikhlin & R.King - Prison Privatisation: An International Perspective; K.Beyens & S.Snacken - Index