Doing Time

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This book is designed to acquaint students with some of the main issues associated with the emergence and development of the modern prison. It draws on a range of sociological theorising in order to analyse the organisation and the functioning of the prison. It examines the conditions for the expansion of the prison and explores the possibilities for limiting prison use through the development of alternatives to custody. In particular, it looks in some detail at the relation between imprisonment and class, age, gender and race. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements The Emergence of the Modern Prison Space, Time and Labour Order, Control and Adaptation in Prison Prison Profile: Data, Trends and Analysis Unemployment and Imprisonment The Scale of Imprisonment Juveniles in Custody Women's Imprisonment Race and Imprisonment The Future of Imprisonment Bibliography Index