New Routledge Handbook on Prisons

The second edition of the Routledge Handbook on Prisons (edited by Jewkes, Bennet, and Crewe) is out. An excerpt from the description: 

The Handbook contains chapters written not only by those who have established and developed prison research, but also features contributions from ex-prisoners, prison governors and ex-governors, prison inspectors and others who have worked with prisoners in a wide range of professional capacities. This second edition includes several completely new chapters on topics as diverse as prison design, technology in prisons, the high security estate, therapeutic communities, prisons and desistance, supermax and solitary confinement, plus a brand new section on international perspectives. The Handbook aims to convey the reality of imprisonment, and to reflect the main issues and debates surrounding prisons and prisoners, while also providing novel ways of thinking about familiar penal problems and enhancing our theoretical understanding of imprisonment.

The TOC follows:

Introduction 

Part 1: Prisons in Context 

1. Prisons in Context, Andrew Coyle 

2. Prison Histories, 1770s-1950s: Continuities and contradictions, Helen Johnston 

3. The Aims of Imprisonment, Ian O’Donnell 

4. The Politics of Imprisonment, Richard Sparks, Jessica Bird and Louise Brangan 

5. The Sociology of Imprisonment, Ben Crewe 

6. Prison expansionism, Deborah H. Drake 

7. Prison Design and Carceral Space, Dominique Moran, Yvonne Jewkes and Jennifer Turner 

8. Prison Managerialism: Global change and local cultures in the working lives of prison managers, Jamie Bennett 

Part 2: Prison Controversies 

9. Private Prisons, John Rynne and Richard Harding 

10. Segregation and Supermax Confinement: An ethical evaluation, Derek S. Jeffreys 

11. Mental Health in Prisons, Alice Mills and Kathleen Kendall 

12. Drug Misuse in Prison, Michael Wheatley 

13. Suicide, Distress and the Quality of Prison Life, Alison Liebling and Amy Ludlow 

14. Sex offenders in Prison, Ruth Mann 

15. The prison officer, Helen Arnold

16. Prisons and Technology: General lessons from the American context, Robert Johnson and Katie Hail-Jares 

Part 3: International Perspectives on Imprisonment 

17. Punishment and Political Economy, Ester Massa

18. Prisons and Human Rights, Peter Bennett 

19. An International Overview of the Initiatives to Accommodate Indigenous Prisoners, Elizabeth Grant 

20. Ironies of American Imprisonment: From capitalizing on prisons to capital punishment, Michael Welch 

21. Houses for the Poor: Continental European prisons, Vincenzo Ruggiero 

22. Prisons as Welfare Institutions? Punishment and the Nordic model, Thomas Ugelvik 

23. Australasian Prisons, Claire Spivakovsky  24. Prisons in Africa, Andrew M. Jefferson and Tomas Max Martin 

25. Asian prisons: Colonial pasts, neoliberal future and subversive sites, Mahuya Bandyopadhyay 

26. Latin American Prisons, Sacha Darke and Maria Lucia Karam 

Part 4: The Penal Spectrum 

27. High Security Prisons in England and Wales: Principles and practuce, Alison Liebling 

28. Therapeutic Communities in Prison, Alisa Stevens 

29. Older Age, Harder Time: Ageing and imprisonment, Natalie Mann 

30. Young People and Prison, Rob Allen 

31. Doing Gendered Time: The harms of women's incarceration, Linda Moore and Phil Scraton 

32. Race, Ethnicity, Multiculture and Prison Life, Rod Earle 

33. The Prisoner: Inside and out, Jason Warr 

Part 5: Beyond the Prison 

34. Prisons and desistance, Fergus McNeill and Marguerite Schinkel 

35. Collateral damage: The families and children of prisoners, Rachel Condry, Anna Kotova and Shona Minson 

36. Inspecting the Prison, Nick Hardwick 

37. Researching the Prison, Yvonne Jewkes and Serena Wright 

38. Representing the Prison, Eamonn Carrabine 

39. Imprisonment in a Global World: Rethinking penal power, Mary Bosworth, Inês Hasselberg and Sarah Turnbull 

40. Campaigning for and Campaigning against Prisons: Excavating and reaffirming the case for prison abolition, Mick Ryan and Joe Sim.