The new edition of Doing Time brings this widely recognized book up-to-date and provides an accessible and informed discussion of current debates around prisons and penal policy. Drawing on a range of international material the book provides a critical sociological analysis of developments in imprisonment.

Auteur
Roger Matthews is Professor of Criminology at London South Bank University, UK. He is Head of the Crime Reduction and Community Safety Research Group. He is sole author of Armed Robbery and Prostitution, Politics and Policy. He has also produced joint authored texts on community safety and edited a number of books on criminological theory, imprisonment and crime control.

Contenu
List of Tables and Figures Preface to Second Edition Acknowledgements The Emergence of the Modern Prison Space, Time and Labour Order, Control and Adaption in Prison The Political Economy of Imprisonment ThePolitics andCultureof Imprisonment Crime, Sentencing and Imprisonment Youth Justice and Youth Custody Women's Imprisonment Race and Imprisonment The Future of Imprisonment Bibliography