Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies

by David Garland and David Garland

Book Overview

First published in 1985, this classic of law and society scholarship continues to shape the research agenda of today's sociology of punishment. It is now republished with a new Preface by the author.

Punishment and Welfare explores the relation of punishment to politics, the historical formation and development of criminology, and the way in which penal reform grew out of the complex set of political projects that founded the modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610273796
• ISBN13: 9781610273794
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Quid Pro, LLC
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"