After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States has increased fivefold during the last four decades.

The central figure in prison administration in every country in the most complicated product of our modern civilization the criminals. The problems of prison ad

This book brings together a collection of social justice scholars and activists who take Foucault’s concept of discipline and punishment to explain how prison

The Society of Captives, first published in 1958, is a classic of modern criminology and one of the most important books ever written about prison. Gresham Syke

Market society is producing more crime around the world. More acts are being defined as crimes. Ever increasing numbers of people are classified as criminals an