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040 _aMAIN
041 _aEnglish
082 _a364.6
_bSIM/PUN
100 _aSim, Joe
245 _aPunishment and prisons :
_bpower and the carceral state
_cby Joe Sim.
260 _aLondon :
_bSage,
_c2009.
300 _a183 p.
500 _aTable 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
650 _aCriminology.
942 _cBK
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_d2273