Sim, Joe <br/><br/>
Punishment and prisons :  power and the carceral state 
by Joe Sim. 
 - London :  Sage,  2009. 
 - 183 p. 
<br/><br/> Table of Contents:<br/>Chapter 1. Continuity and contestation in penal politics <br/>Chapter 2. Law, order and the penal system 1974-83 <br/>Chapter 3. Hard reign: Thatcherism and the consolidation of penal authoritarianism 1983-90 <br/>Chapter 4. From big house to Bleak House: prisons in the "Iron Times" 1990-97 <br/>Chapter 5. "Piety and iron": New Labour and social authoritarianism <br/>Chapter 5. "Those with no capital get the punishment": New Labour and the working prison <br/>Chapter 6. For abolitionist praxis: transcending the prison mentality <br/>Chapter 7. Abolitionists in an anti-Utopian Age.<br/>Bibliography<br/>Index 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780761960041 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Criminology.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>364.6  / SIM/PUN