Explaining U.S. Imprisonment

INTRODUCTION
1: THE ORIGINS OF U.S. IMPRISONMENT: BEYOND THE PENITENTIARY
Colonial Justice
The War of Independence (1775-1783)
Prisons, Slavery and the Antebellum South
Religious Reform in the North
The Civil War
Reconstruction
Women's Prison
Debating Imprisonment
Conclusion
2: PENAL REFORM AND PRISON SCIENCE: ENGINEERING ORDER AND BUILDING AMERICA
Penal Reformism: The National Prison Association
'Prison Science': Reformism and Social Engineering
The First World War: Conscientious Objectors and Prison
The Federal Bureau of Prisons
The Depression: Prisons, Labour and Social Structure
World War II: Questions of National Security
Women's Reformatories
Reform, Science and Nation-Building
Conclusion
3: PRISON CULTURE: SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHANGE
The Prison Community
Importation vs. Deprivation
Gender
Race
Sexuality
Research Methods, Governance and Social Control
Conclusion: Contextualizing Sociological Accounts of Imprisonment
4: AN ERA OF UNCERTAINTY: RIOTS, REFORM AND REPRESSION
Attica
Activism Before and After Attica
The Administration of Justice
The Demise of Rehabilitation
Penal Revisionism and Prisoners' Rights: Theory v. Practice
Conclusion
5: THE PUNITIVE TURN: LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS FOR MASS IMPRISONMENT
The Reagan Years
Legislating Punishment
Private Prisons
Prison Building and Supermax
Challenging Imprisonment in an Era of Punitivism
Conclusion
6: A CULTURE OF CONTROL
Prisons and Politics in the 1990s
Punishment and Modern Society: Explaining the Culture of Control
Neo-conservatives, the Culture Wars and Prison
Managing Prisons
Experiencing Incarceration and Challenging the Culture of Control
Conclusion
7: CHALLENGING THE CULTURE OF CONTROL?
Prisons in the Twenty-first Century
The Costs of Imprisonment: An Emerging Critique
Prison Conditions and Public Safety
The Courts: An Alternative Source of Critique
Hurricane Katrina
Governing Through Crime
Opening the Prison: Convict Voices
Conclusion: Governing Through Imprisonment?
8: THE NEW DETENTION: SECURING THE BORDER
Context
The Law
Detaining Immigrants
The War on Terror
Scholarly Accounts of the War on Terror: A Failure of the Criminological Imagination?
Conclusion
CONCLUSION