Matthews Roger - Doing Time An Introduction To The Sociology Of Imprisonment - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Doing Time is an essential text for students in criminology and criminal justice - a one - stop overview of key debates in punishment and imprisonment. This edition thoroughly revised and updated throughout is a highly accessible guide providing the tools to critically engage with today's central issues in penology and penal policy. Examining imprisonment both historically and sociologically and in international perspective Doing Time outlines theoretical debates and goes beyond standard introductory texts to help students develop their own critical and informed opinions. This new edition includes: three new chapters an up - to - date bibliography fully revised statistical information a guide to key internet resources Issues explored include: how incarceration became established as the foremost form of punishment the role of space time and labor in the evolution of prisons and prison life why prison populations are rising despite the fall in crime figures an examination of key prison populations - juveniles women and ethnic groups crime and the business cycle - links between crime unemployment and imprisonment globalization and crime control the future of imprisonment
Title: Doing Time An Introduction To The Sociology Of Imprisonment
Author(s): Matthews Roger
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Barcode: 9780230235526
Pages: 297 Pages, Xi, 297 P.
Publication Date: 8/28/2009
Category: Penology & Punishment