Transnational Penal Cultures

<p>Focusing on three key stages of the criminal justice process discipline punishment and desistance and incorporating case studies from Asia the Americas Europe Africa and Australia the thirteen chapters in this collection are based on exciting new research that explores the evolution and adaptation of criminal justice and penal systems largely from the early nineteenth century to the present. They range across the disciplinary boundaries of History Criminology Law and Penology.</p><p>Journeying into and unlocking different national and international penal archives and drawing on diverse analytical approaches the chapters forge new connections between historical and contemporary issues in crime prisons policing and penal cultures and challenge traditional Western democratic historiographies of crime and punishment and categorisations of offenders police and ex-offenders.</p><p>The individual chapters provide new perspectives on race gender class urban space surveillance policing prisonisation and defiance and will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of criminal justice law police transportation slavery offenders and desistance from crime.</p>