Prison Readings

<p><em>Prison Readings</em> provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the main debates and dilemmas associated with prisons and imprisonment bringing together a selection of the key readings on the subject along with a comprehensive introduction and commentary written by the editors. It will be essential reading for students studying prisons as part of courses in criminology sociology law psychology and other disciplines and practitioners working in this field. <br><br><em>Prison Readings</em> introduces students to the history and development of prisons contemporary theories and issues relating to prison populations to sociological and psychological literature on the 'effects' of imprisonment and to debates about the management and privatisation of the prison estate and emerging trends.</p>