Doing Time

An Introduction to the Sociology of Imprisonment

By: R. Matthews

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Hardcover | 9 July 1999 | Edition Number 2

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This work is designed to acquaint students with some of the main issues associated with the emergence and development of the modern prison. It draws on a range of sociological theorizing in order to analyze the organization and the functioning of the prison. It examines the conditions for the expansion of the prison and explores the possibilities for limiting prison use through the development of alternatives to custody. In particular, it looks in some detail at the relation between imprisonment and class, age, gender and race.

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'...a good criminology textbook...should be a well-written volume providing a wide range of reliable data and textual reference, while comprehensively engaging with the main theoretical debates. If, at the same time...[it] manages to conceptualise those theoretical debates in their wider cultural, social political and economic contexts without losing the fluidity of expositional style and vividness of example desirable in introductory texts, then the author might even be congratulated on producing an unusually excellent primer. Such a rare feat has been achieved by Roger Matthews in his book...The most admirable aspect...is the elegant and economic way in which Matthews provides a broad sweep of empirical data and theoretical perspectives in one small volume.' - Pat Carlen, Professor of Criminology, University of Bath

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List of Tables and Figures	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
The Emergence of the Modern Prison	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
The Spectacle of Suffering	p. 2
A Just Measure of Pain	p. 4
Jails, Workhouses and Houses of Correction	p. 6
Transportation and the Hulks	p. 8
Labour, Discipline and Punishment	p. 9
Women's Imprisonment	p. 13
The Well-Ordered Prison	p. 16
The Demise of the Prison?	p. 20
The Welfare Sanction	p. 22
Conclusion	p. 23
Space, Time and Labour	p. 26
Introduction	p. 26
Space	p. 26
Time	p. 37
Labour	p. 43
Conclusion	p. 49
Order, Control and Adaptation in Prison	p. 51
Introduction	p. 51
Early Sociologies of Imprisonment	p. 52
Total Institutions, Bureaucracy and Power	p. 59
Modes of Adaptation to Imprisonment	p. 69
Conclusion	p. 79
Prison Profile: Data, Trends and Analysis	p. 81
Introduction	p. 81
Changes in the Prison Population	p. 82
Some Recent Trends	p. 85
Prisoner Profiles	p. 89
Doing Prisons Research	p. 91
Getting Behind the Data	p. 93
Analysis	p. 97
Conclusion	p. 102
Unemployment, Crime and Imprisonment	p. 104
Introduction	p. 104
Time-series and Cross-sectional studies	p. 105
From Unemployment to Consumption	p. 107
Developing Causal Explanations	p. 111
Unemployment and Decision-making within the Criminal Justice System	p. 114
Unemployment and the Severity of Punishment	p. 117
The Changing Nature of Employment	p. 118
Women, Unemployment, Crime and Imprisonment	p. 122
The 'Underclass' Debate	p. 123
Conclusion	p. 127
The Scale of Imprisonment	p. 129
Introduction	p. 129
Demographic Changes	p. 132
Political Change	p. 134
The Prison Building Programme	p. 139
The Growth of Crime	p. 141
From Arrest to Trial	p. 142
Sentencing Policy	p. 144
Limiting Prison Use	p. 145
Contrasts in Tolerance	p. 149
Conclusion	p. 151
Young People in Custody	p. 154
Introduction	p. 154
Borstal and Beyond	p. 158
The Incarceration of Young People in the Post-war Period	p. 163
Decarceration in Europe	p. 176
Conclusion	p. 177
Women's Imprisonment	p. 179
Introduction	p. 179
The Demise of Women's Imprisonment?	p. 183
The Changing Scale of Women's Imprisonment	p. 185
Sentencing, Leniency and Equality	p. 189
The Characteristics of the Female Prison Population	p. 193
Women in Prison	p. 195
Holloway: Reconstructing Ideology	p. 197
Alternative Models of Women's Imprisonment	p. 199
Conclusion	p. 207
Race and Imprisonment	p. 208
Introduction	p. 208
The Problem of Categorisation	p. 209
Race and Racism	p. 211
Race and Crime	p. 213
Arrests, Cautioning and Prosecution	p. 217
Courts and Sentencing	p. 218
Race and the Experience of Incarceration	p. 224
Race and Imprisonment in America	p. 225
Confining Ethnic Minorities in Fortress Europe	p. 230
Conclusion	p. 233
The Future of Imprisonment	p. 236
Introduction	p. 236
Modernism and Postmodernism	p. 239
Fordism and Post-Fordism	p. 242
Space and Spacism	p. 249
It's About Time	p. 256
Conclusion	p. 258
Bibliography	p. 262
Index	p. 285
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