| Description |
1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice Ser |
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Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Introduction -- Why the politics of prison crowding? -- The challenges of engaging and theorising the politics of crowding -- Structure of the book -- Part 1 Conceptual challenges on punishment and imprisonment -- 1 Literature review: carceral state and managerial turn -- Researching punishment and imprisonment -- A literature review on punishment -- Carceral versus penal -- The carceral state and penal state: making a point -- The carceral as an analytical framework -- Prison crowding |
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Crisis, transformation, and institutional landscape -- Reform and managerialism as state governance -- Criminal justice and managerialism -- Some final remarks on the prison crowding as a crisis -- 2 The roots of transformation of the Italian prison system -- The southern question and the racialisation of carceral control -- Migrant detention centres -- Modernisation and efficiency -- Anni di Pombo and the maximum-security prison -- The impact of anti-corruption policy on penal populism -- The new right and the managerial state: transformations in the institutional landscape |
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Privatisation of the public sector in prison: a pocket of resistance to the neoliberal turn -- Some final considerations: the carceral as the cornerstone of the institutional landscape -- 3 Fracturing the Italian carceral system -- The Italian prison system: some contextual elements -- Fracturing the Italian carceral state: mobility and the penal field -- The becoming of punishment: the transition of Italian penality towards overcrowded prison facilities -- Reconstruction and normalisation (̃1946-1974) -- Consolidation and modernisation of the Italian prison system: the reform era (̃1975-1991) |
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Expansion of the carceral system and changes in penal control (̃1992-the present) -- Subaltern inclusion and mobility: towards a managerial understanding of punishment -- Some final reflections -- 4 Prison crowding: from harm denial to the managerial turn -- Introduction -- The origin of the prison crowding crisis -- General pardon policies and the governance of the prison system -- Rationalisation and consolidation of the Italian penal system prison: expansion and a new perspective on rehabilitation |
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The politics of prison crowding and the institutional storyline: policy, narratives, and harm denial -- Defining the boundaries of the overcrowding problem: prison capacity and institutional narratives -- From the physical data to political denial of harm -- The managerial turn of Italian penalty -- The pains of imprisonment and the managerial turn -- Some final considerations -- Part 2 Researching the Italian carceral landscape: methodology -- 5 '4 sqm means nothing': space and time in overcrowded prisons -- A typical day behind prison bars |
| Summary |
The Politics of Prison Crowding investigates recent transformations in Italy's penal system to make the key analytical observation that conditions of overcrowding have become the 'new normal' under which the modern prison system continues to operate and deliver punishment |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Time behind bars: the rhythms and pains of incarceration |
| Subject |
Prisons-Overcrowding-Law and legislation
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Prisons -- Overcrowding -- Law and legislation
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000832457 |
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1000832457 |
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