TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sim, Joe
TI  - Punishment and prisons: power and the carceral state
SN  - 9780761960041
U1  - 364.6 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Sage
KW  - Criminology
N1  - Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Continuity and contestation in penal politics 
Chapter 2. Law, order and the penal system 1974-83 
Chapter 3. Hard reign: Thatcherism and the consolidation of penal authoritarianism 1983-90 
Chapter 4. From big house to Bleak House: prisons in the "Iron Times" 1990-97 
Chapter 5. "Piety and iron": New Labour and social authoritarianism 
Chapter 5. "Those with no capital get the punishment": New Labour and the working prison 
Chapter 6. For abolitionist praxis: transcending the prison mentality 
Chapter 7. Abolitionists in an anti-Utopian Age.
Bibliography
Index
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