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Punishment in America
Social Control and the Ironies of Imprisonment
- Michael Welch - Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA, Rutgers University, USA
October 1999 | 344 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
In Punishment in America Michael Welch gathers together his seminal contributions to the most crucial and controversial issues in criminal justice. Topics range from the war on drugs, boot camps and institutional violence to AIDS and HIV, capital punishment and the entire corrections industry.
This coherent, but critical vision of punishment and corrections emphasizes social control but takes account of key social forces such as politics, religion and morality.
Todd R Clear
Foreword
Discovery of the Penitentiary and Emergence of Social Control
Critical Criminology, Social Justice and an Alternative View of Incarceration
The Contours of Race, Social Class and Punishment
Exploring Institutional Biases in Corrections
The War on Drugs and Correctional Warehousing
Alternative Strategies for the Drug Crisis
Regulating the Reproduction and Morality of Women
The Social Control of Body and Soul
Jail Overcrowding
Social Sanitation and the Warehousing of the Urban Underclass
A Critical Interpretation of Correctional Bootcamps as Normalizing Institutions
Discipline, Punishment and the Military Model
The Brutal Truth
The Reproduction of Prison Violence and the Ironies of Social Control
The Machinery of Death
Capital Punishment and the Ironies of Social Control
The Poverty of Interest in Huamn Rights Violations in US Prisons
Prisoners with HIV/AIDS
Discrimination, Fringe Punishments and the Production of Suffering
The Immigration Crisis
Detention as an Emerging Mechanism of Social Control
The Corrections Industry
Economic Forces and the Prison Enterprise