Table of contents:
Part 1: Description and prescription
Chapter 1. Justice in Prison: Remedial Jurisprudence and Versatile Criminology
Chapter 2: Prisons in a Modern Society
Chapter 3. Reality and Reform in Tihar Central Jail
Chapter 4. Prison Administration in India: Contemporary Issues
Chapter 5. Punishment in Unequal Justice: America's Prison Industry
Chapter 6. The Proper Use of Imprisonment
Chapter 7. Prison as Seen by an English Judge
Chapter 8. Sentencing: Choices and Dilemmas for a Judge
Chapter 9. The Problem of Undertrials-I: Hussainara Khatoon and Public Interest Litigation
Chapter 10. The Problem of Undertrials-II: Kadra Pahadiya and Juvenile Justice
Chapter 11. Police, Crime and Punishment: Indian Predicaments
A. India's Police: The Dilemmas of an Aberrated System
B. Is it Fair to Malign the Police?
Chapter 12. Exploring Non-custodial Punishments: Zimbabwe's Community Service Scheme
Part 2: Discourse and analysis
Chapter 13. Kill them for their Bad Verses: On Criminal Law and Punishment in India
Chapter 14. Bringing Judas Back to the Last Supper? The Tasks of Republican Criminology in Service of Globalisation
Chapter 15. Political Prisoners and the Prison System: Colonial Purposes and Praxiological Problems
Chapter 16. Women, Crime and Jail Justice: Theoretical Formulations and Indian Realities
Chapter 17. Alternatives to Prisons: Reflections and Experiences
Chapter 18. Conclusion: The Punishment of Crime or the Crime of Punishment