Book contents
- Why Prison?
- Series page
- Why Prison?
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and tables
- Contributors
- Table of cases
- Foreword
- 1 Why prison? Posing the question
- Part I Penal discipline
- Part II Public participation
- Part III State detention
- 8 The iron cage of prison studies
- 9 The prison and national identity: citizenship, punishment and the sovereign state*
- 10 Punishing the detritus and the damned: penal and semi-penal institutions in Liverpool and the North West
- Part IV Penal reform
- Part V Abolitionist alternatives
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - The iron cage of prison studies
from Part III - State detention
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2013
- Why Prison?
- Series page
- Why Prison?
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and tables
- Contributors
- Table of cases
- Foreword
- 1 Why prison? Posing the question
- Part I Penal discipline
- Part II Public participation
- Part III State detention
- 8 The iron cage of prison studies
- 9 The prison and national identity: citizenship, punishment and the sovereign state*
- 10 Punishing the detritus and the damned: penal and semi-penal institutions in Liverpool and the North West
- Part IV Penal reform
- Part V Abolitionist alternatives
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Why Prison? , pp. 149 - 169Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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