Volume 51 is a thematic volume on Prisons and Prisoners. Since
1979, the Crime and Justice series has presented a review of the
latest international research, providing expertise to enhance the
work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice
scholars, and political scientists. The series explores a full
range of issues concerning crime, its causes, and its cures. In
both the review and the occasional thematic volumes, Crime and
Justice offers an interdisciplinary approach to address core issues
in criminology. Volume 51 of Crime and Justice is the first to
reprise a predecessor, Prisons (Volume 26, 1999), edited by series
editor Michael Tonry and the late Joan Petersilia. In Prisons and
Prisoners, editors Michael Tonry and Sandra Bucerius revisit the
subject for several reasons. In 1999, most scholarly research
concerned developments in Britain and the United States and was
published in English. Much of that was sociological, focused on
inmate subcultures, or psychological, focused on how prisoners
coped with and adapted to prison life. Some, principally by
economists and statisticians, sought to measure the
crime-preventive effects of imprisonment generally and the
deterrent effects of punishments of greater and lesser severity. In
2022, serious scholarly research on prisoners, prisons, and the
effects of imprisonment has been published and is underway in many
countries. That greater cosmopolitanism is reflected in the pages
of this volume. Several essays concern developments in places other
than Britain and the United States. Several are primarily
comparative and cover developments in many countries. Those
primarily concerned with American research draw on work done
elsewhere. The subjects of prison research have also changed. Work
on inmate subcultures and coping and adaptation has largely fallen
by the wayside. Little is being done on imprisonment’s
crime-preventive effects, largely because they are at best modest
and often perverse. An essay in Volume 50 of Crime and Justice,
examining the 116 studies then published on the effects of
imprisonment on subsequent offending, concluded that serving a
prison term makes ex-prisoners on average more, not less, likely to
reoffend. In 1999, little research had been done on the effects of
imprisonment on prisoners’ families, children, or communities, or
even—except for recidivism— on ex-prisoners’ later lives:
family life, employment, housing, physical and mental health, or
achievement of a conventional, law-abiding life. The first
comprehensive survey of what was then known was published in the
earlier Crime and Justice:Â Prisons volume. An enormous
literature has since emerged, as essays in this volume demonstrate.
Comparatively little work had been done by 1999 on the distinctive
prison experiences of women and members of non-White minority
groups. That too has changed, as several of the essays make clear.
What is not clear is the future of imprisonment. Through more
contemporary and global lenses, the essays featured in this volume
not only reframe where we are in 2022 but offer informed insights
into where we might be heading. Â
General
Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Crime and Justice: A Review of Research |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
First published: |
2022 |
Editors: |
Michael Tonry
• Sandra Bucerius
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
512 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-82507-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
|
LSN: |
0-226-82507-8 |
Barcode: |
9780226825076 |
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