Mass imprisonment : social causes and consequences

 Content: The meaning of mass imprisonment / David Garland --
 The causes and consequences of prison growth in the United States / Marc Mauer --
 Fear and loathing in late modernity : reflections on the cultural sources of mass imprisonment in the United States / Jonathan Simon --
 Television, public space and prison population : a commentary on Mauer and Simon / Thomas Mathiesen --
 Governing social marginality : welfare, incarceration, and the transformation of state policy / Katherine Beckett and Bruce Western --
 The macho penal economy : mass incarceration in the United States--a European perspective / David Downes --
 Novus ordo saeclorum? : a commentary on Downes, and on Beckett and Western / David F. Greenberg --
 Deadly symbiosis : when ghetto and prison meet and mesh / Loïc Wacquant --
 Going straight : the story of a young inner-city ex-convict / Elijah Anderson --
 Bringing the individual back in : a commentary on Wacquant and Anderson / Jerome Miller --
 Imprisonment rates and the new politics of criminal punishment / Franklin E. Zimring --
 Unthought thoughts : the influence of changing sensibilities on penal policies / Michael Tonry --
 Facts, values and prison policies : a commentary on Zimring and Tonry / James B. Jacobs --
 The private and the public in penal history : a commentary on Zimring and Tonry / Alex Lichtenstein --
 The new iron cage / David Garland.
 Abstract:             Mass Imprisonment examines what is known about the political and penological causes of the social phenomenon of the US prison system. David Garland brings together papers by criminologists, sociologists and historians to describe the impact of prison