Winner of the 1991 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Sociological AssociationWinner of the Outstanding Scholarship Award of the Crime and Delinquency Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, USAThe first comprehensive account of the role of punishment in modern society, this book buils upon the work of Durkheim, Foucault, and others, and provides a fascinating interpretation of this complex social institution, showing how penal institutions interact with strategies of power, socio-economic structures, and cultural sensibilities.
The sociology of punishment and punishment today; punishment and social solidarity - the work of Emile Durkheim; punishment and the construction of authority - a reworking of Durkheimian themes; the political economy of punishment - Rusche and Kirchheimer and the Marxist tradition; punishment as ideology and class control - variations on Marxist themes; punishment and the technologies of power - the work of Michel Foucault; beyond the power perspective - a critique of Foucault on punishment; the rationalization of punishment - Weberian themes and modern penality; punishment and culture - cultural forms and penal practices; punishment and sensibilities - a genealogy of "civilized" sanctions; punishment as a cultural agent - penality's role in the creation of culture; punishment as a social institution.
This is a superbly intelligent study, without doubt the best yet written on a topic, penality, which the author has done so much to develop ... As a state of the art account it is unlikely to be bettered for many a year.
David Garland, Richard Sparks, New York University) Garland, David (Professor of Law, School of Law and Department of Sociology, Professor of Law, School of Law and Department of Sociology, Keele University) Sparks, Richard (Professor of Law, Department of Criminology, Professor of Law, Department of Criminology
R. A. Duff, David Garland, University of Stirling) Duff, R. A. (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh) Garland, David (Professor of Penology, Professor of Penology
Brian Vickers, Zurich; founding President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric) Vickers, Brian (Professor of English and Renaissance Literature, Professor of English and Renaissance Literature, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford) Matthew, H. C. G. (late Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford, and Fellow, late Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford, and Fellow, St Hugh's College
J. L. Austin, University of Oxford) Austin, J. L. (late White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, late White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, J. I. Austin, J. O. Urmson, G. J. Warnock, Geoffrey J. Warnock, James O. Urmson
Ellen T. Harris, University of Chicago) Harris, Ellen T. (Chairman of the Music Department and Professor of Music, Chairman of the Music Department and Professor of Music
John J. Richetti, University of Pennsylvania) Richetti, John J. (Leonard Sugarman Term Professor of English, Leonard Sugarman Term Professor of English
David C. Hoaglin, Frederick Mosteller, John W. Tukey, David C. (Harvard University) Hoaglin, Frederick (Harvard University) Mosteller, John W. (Princeton University) Tukey, David C Hoaglin, John W Tukey