The SAGE Handbook of
Punishment and Society
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The SAGE Handbook of
Punishment and Society
Edited by
Jonathan Simon
and
Richard Sparks
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Introduction and Editorial Arrangement Jonathan Simon and Richard Sparks 2013
David Garland 2013
Alessandro De Giorgi 2013
Jonathan Simon 2013
John Pratt 2013
Philip Smith 2013
Kelly Hannah-Moffat 2013
Joshua Page 2013
Christopher Muller and Christopher Wildeman 2013
Mary Bosworth and Emma Kaufman 2013
Marie Gottschalk 2013
Mona Lynch 2013
Nicola Lacey 2013
Alison Liebling and Ben Crewe 2013
Austin Sarat 2013
Gwen Robinson, Fergus McNeill and Shadd Maruna 2013
John Muncie and Barry Goldson 2013
Kathleen Daly 2013
Pat OMalley 2013
Dirk van Zyl Smit 2013
Dario Melossi 2013
Kieran McEvoy and Louise Mallinder 2013
Liora Lazarus, Benjamin Goold and Caitlin Goss 2013
First published 2013
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Contents
Punishment and Society: The Emergence of an Academic Field
Jonathan Simon and Richard Sparks
David Garland
Alessandro De Giorgi
Jonathan Simon
John Pratt
Philip Smith
Kelly Hannah-Moffat
Joshua Page
Christopher Muller and Christopher Wildeman
Mary Bosworth and Emma Kaufman
Marie Gottschalk
Mona Lynch
Nicola Lacey
Alison Liebling and Ben Crewe
Austin Sarat
Gwen Robinson, Fergus McNeill and Shadd Maruna
John Muncie and Barry Goldson
Kathleen Daly
Pat OMalley
Dirk van Zyl Smit
Dario Melossi
Kieran McEvoy and Louise Mallinder
Liora Lazarus, Benjamin Goold and Caitlin Goss
About the Authors
Mary Bosworth is Reader in Criminology and Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford and, concurrently, Professor of Criminology at Monash University, Australia. She has published widely on issues of race, gender, and punishment and is currently conducting research on immigration detention in Greece and the UK.
Ben Crewe is deputy director of the Prisons Research Centre, University of Cambridge. His most recent research monograph, The Prisoner Society: Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison, was published by Oxford University Press in 2009.
Kathleen Daly is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Brisbane.
David Garland is Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University. He is the author of several works in the sociology of punishment and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Punishment and Society.
Alessandro De Giorgi is Associate Professor of Justice Studies at San Jose State University, California. His research interests include theories of punishment and social control, political economy, and urban ethnography. He is the author of Re-thinking the Political Economy of Punish ment: Perspectives on Post-Fordism and Penal Politics (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2006).
Barry Goldson holds the Charles Booth Chair of Social Science at the University of Liverpool, UK and is Visiting Professorial Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the founding editor of Youth Justice: An International Journal (SAGE Publications).
Benjamin Goold is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia. In addition to writing on issues of surveillance and covert policing, he is also interested in privacy, data protection and the relationship between security and human rights.
Caitlin Goss is a doctoral student in law at the University of Oxford, writing on interim constitutions. She has degrees in law and philosophy from the University of Queensland. She has worked as a judicial associate on the Queensland Court of Appeal, and as an intern at the Office of the Co-Prosecutors at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.
Marie Gottschalk is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of, among other works, The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America and is completing a new book on the future of penal reform.