Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements The Emergence of the Modern Prison Space, Time and Labour Order, Control and Adaptation in Prison Prison Profile: Data, Trends and Analysis Unemployment and Imprisonment The Scale of Imprisonment Juveniles in Custody Women's Imprisonment Race and Imprisonment The Future of Imprisonment Bibliography Index

About the Author

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.

Reviews

'...a good criminology textbook...should be a well-written volume providing a wide range of reliable data and textual reference, while comprehensively engaging with the main theoretical debates. If, at the same time...[it] manages to conceptualise those theoretical debates in their wider cultural, social political and economic contexts without losing the fluidity of expositional style and vividness of example desirable in introductory texts, then the author might even be congratulated on producing an unusually excellent primer. Such a rare feat has been achieved by Roger Matthews in his book...The most admirable aspect...is the elegant and economic way in which Matthews provides a broad sweep of empirical data and theoretical perspectives in one small volume.' - Pat Carlen, Professor of Criminology, University of Bath