Imaginary Penalities

Pat Carlen (University of Leicester, UK)

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Willan Publishing
17 October 2008

Penology & punishment; Sentencing & punishment

This book is concerned to explore the idea of imaginary penalities and to understand why the management of criminal justice and criminal justice systems has so often reached crisis point. Its underlying theme is that when political strategies of punitive populism are combined with managerialist techniques of social auditing, a new all-encompassing form of governance has emerged - powerless to deliver what it promises but with a momentum of its own and increasingly removed from proper democratic accountability.

A highly distinguished international group of contributors explores this set of themes in a variety of different contexts taken from the UK, N. America, Europe and Australia. It will be essential reading for anybody seeking to understand some of the root causes of increasing prison populations, social harms such as recidivism and domestic violence and the increasingly important role of criminal justice within systems of governance.

Edited by: Pat Carlen (University of Leicester UK)
Imprint: Willan Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 660g
ISBN: 9781843923756
ISBN 10: 1843923750
Pages: 358
Publication Date: 17 October 2008
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Imaginary Penalities and Risk-crazed Governance 2. Imaginable Insecurities: Imagination, Routinisation and the Government of Uncertainty Post 9/11 3. The First Casualty: Evidence and Governance in a War against Crime 4. Inventing Community Safety 5. Telling Sentencing Stories 6. The 'Seemingness' of the 'Seamless Management' of Offenders 7. Pain and Punishment: The Real and the Imaginary in Penal Institutions 8. Imaginary Reform: Changing the Post-colonial Prison 9. The Imaginary Constitution of Wage Labourers 10. Re-imagining Gendered Penalities: The Myth of Gender Responsivity 11. Risking Desistance: Disrespect and Dependency in Custodial and Post-release Contexts 12. 'The Best Seven Years I Could'a Done': The Reconstruction of Imprisonment as Rehabilitation 13. Re-imagining Justice: Principles of Justice for Divided Societies in a Globalized World

Pat Carlen is Visiting Professor at the Universities of Kent and Westminster, Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Criminology, founder of the Keele Criminology Department, co-founder of the campaigning group Women in Prison, and has published 17 books and many articles on criminal and social justice