The Prison and the Factory (40th Anniversary Edition) Origins of the Penitentiary System /

• Main Authors: Melossi, Dario (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Pavarini, Massimo (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Corrections.; Punishment.; Crime-Sociological aspects.; Criminology.; Human rights.; Public safety.; Popular Social Sciences.; Prison and Punishment.; Crime and Society.; Criminological Theory.; Human Rights and Crime .; Crime Control and Security.

This new edition of The Prison and the Factory, a classic work on radical criminology, includes two new, long essays from the authors and a foreword from Professor Jonathan Simon (UC Berkeley). In the two essays, Melossi and Pavarini reflect on the origins, development and fortune of The Prison and...

Table of Contents:

• 1. "The Prison and the Factory" Revisited (2017): Penality and the Critique of Political Economy Between Marx and Foucault. Part 1 Prison and Labour in Europe and Italy During the Formation of the Capitalist Mode of Production Dario Melossi - 2. Creation of the Modern Prison in England and Europe (1550-1850)
• 3. Genesis of the Prison in Italy. Part 2 The Penitentiary Invention: The US Experience of the First Half of the Nineteenth Century Massimo Pavarini - 4. The Jacksonian Era: Economic Development, Marginality and Social Control Policy
• 5. The Penitentiary as a Model of the Ideal Society
• 6. Conclusions: Contractual Reason and Disciplinary Necessity at the Basis of Punishment by Deprivation of Liberty
• 7. Understanding Punishment Today (2017): The Prison Without the Factory. .