Perspectives on Punishment

The book offers an incisive collection of contemporary research into the problems of crime control and punishment. It has three inter-related aims: to take stock of current thinking on punishment regulation and control in the early years of a new century and in the wake of a number of critical junctures including 9/11 which have transformed the social political and cultural environment; to present a selection of the diverse epistemological and methodological frameworks which inform current research; and finally to set out some fruitful directions for the future study of punishment.