Re-thinking the political economy of punishment
Subtitle: perspectives on post-Fordism and penal politics
By: by Alessandro De Giorgi.
Series: Advances in criminology
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Punishment.; Imprisonment -- Social aspects.; Imprisonment -- Economic aspects.; Prisons -- Social aspects.; Social control.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The political economy of penality and the sociology of punishment, past and present; title: Post-Fordism and the emergence of the multitude; title: The government of surplus : preliminary incursions in the field of post-Fordist social control; title: Mass confinement and actuarial penology; title: The criminalization of international migrations : toward an actuarial model of control?; title: Conclusion.