Punishment and Control in Historical Perspective

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Histories of Punishment and Control....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Modernity, The New Republic and Sing Sing: The Creation of a Disciplined Workforce and Citizenry....Pages 15-33
Reconceptualising Social Control: A Case-Study in Gender, Punishment and Murder....Pages 34-55
An Honourable Regime of Truth? Foucault, Psychiatry and English Criminal Justice....Pages 56-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Moral Guardians? Prison Officers, Prison Practice and Ambiguity in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 77-94
The Man, the Machine and the Myths: Reconsidering Winston Churchill’s Prison Reforms....Pages 95-114
The Paradox of the ‘Respectable Offender’: Responding to the Problem of White-Collar Crime in Victorian and Edwardian England....Pages 115-134
Controlling the ‘Hopeless’: Re-Visioning the History of Female Inebriate Institutions c. 1870–1920....Pages 135-157
Punishment, Reformation, or Welfare: Responses to ‘The Problem’ of Juvenile Crime in Victorian and Edwardian Britain....Pages 158-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Prisoner Memoirs and Their Role in Prison History....Pages 179-198
Challenging Discipline and Control: A Comparative Analysis of Prison Riots at Chatham (1861) and Dartmoor (1932)....Pages 199-214
Resistance, Identity and Historical Change in Residential Institutions for Juvenile Delinquents, 1950–70....Pages 215-234
Concluding Remarks: The ‘Punitive Turn’: The Shape of Punishment and Control in Contemporary Society....Pages 235-241
Back Matter....Pages 242-269