Winner of the 1991 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Sociological Association
Winner of the Outstanding Scholarship Award of the Crime and Delinquency Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, USA
The first comprehensive account of the role of punishment in modern society, this book buils upon the work of Durkheim, Foucault, and others, and provides a fascinating interpretation of this complex social institution, showing how penal institutions interact with strategies of power, socio-economic structures, and cultural sensibilities.
- ISBN10 0198762666
- ISBN13 9780198762669
- Publish Date 3 October 1991 (first published 6 September 1990)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English