Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures.- List of Abbreviations.- Ch. 1: Introduction.- PART 1: PUNISHMENT AND PRISON.- Ch. 2: The Prison Emerges.- Ch. 3: Justifying Imprisonment as Punishment.- Ch. 4: Who is Punished?.- PART II: UNDERSTANDING THE EXPERIENCES OF THE PRISON.- Ch. 5: Life, Culture and Adaption in Prison.- Ch. 6: The Gendered Nature of Imprisonment.- Ch. 7: Prisoners and Protest.- Ch. 8: Prison in Popular Culture.- PART 111: THE PENAL FRAMEWORK.- Ch. 9: Prisoners' Rights.- Ch. 10: Governing Prisons.- Ch. 11: Working in Prison.- Ch. 12: The Architecture of Incarceration.- PART IV: POLITICS AND PENALITY.- Ch. 13: Comparative Penology.- Ch. 14: The Future of the Prison.- PART V: RESEARCHING PRISONS AND IMPRISONMENT.- Ch. 15: Researching Prisons and Imprisonment.- Glossary.- Index.

About the Author

Cormac Behan is Lecturer in Criminology at the Technological University Dublin, Ireland.

Abigail Stark is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.