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Author Simon, Jonathan, 1959-

Title Poor discipline : parole and the social control of the underclass, 1890-1990 / Jonathan Simon
Published Chicago : University of Chicago, [1993]
©1993

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 W'PONDS  364.620973 Sim/Pdp  AVAILABLE
Description x, 286 pages ; 24 cm
Series Studies in crime and justice
Studies in crime and justice.
Contents Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Crisis of Penological Modernism -- Part I: Parole as Normalization -- 1. Surety of "Good Behavior": An Early Modern Model of Community Corrections -- 2. Disciplinary Parole -- 3. Clinical Parole -- Part II: From Normalization to Management -- 4. The Legal and Political Environment of Contemporary Parole -- 5. Parole and the Hardening of Urban Poverty, 1970-1990 -- 6. New Technologies of Control, 1970-1990 -- Part III: Management and Governability -- 7. Parole and Return to Imprisonment -- 8. Penal Postmodernism: Power without Narrative -- Conclusion: Dangerous Classes, Laboring Classes, Underclasses -- References -- Index
Analysis Parole
United States
Parole
United States
Notes Bibliography: p269-280. -Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-280) and index
Subject Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Parole -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
People with social disabilities -- United States.
LC no. 93015876
ISBN 0226758567 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226758575 (paper : alk. paper)