1. Introduction
End-of-chapter questions
2. Discovery of the penitentiary
Punishment in colonial America
Institutionalization during the Jacksonian era
The Pennsylvania and Auburn systems of prison discipline
Rothman and social control
Critical interpretations of the history of prisons
Conclusion
End-of-chapter questions
3. Critical penology
Emergence of critical criminology
Contemporary critical criminology
Production of problem populations in capitalist society
Disparities in sentencing
Postmodern feminism
Anarchist criminology
Conclusion
End-of-chapter questions
4. War on drugs and just war theory
Just war theory
Justice of the war on drugs : evaluating the moral reasons
Legitimate authority
Right intention
Last resort
Justice in the war on drugs : evaluating the means
Discrimination
Conclusion
End-of-chapter questions
5. Health care crisis behind bars
HIV/AIDS : metaphors and morality
Prisoners with HIV/AIDS as a problem population
Tuberculosis in corrections
Aging prisoners
The phenomenology of imprisonment and suffering
Conclusion
End-of-chapter questions
6. Reproducing prison violence
Ironies of social control
Escalation
Nonenforcement
Covert facilitation
Conclusion
Notes
End-of-chapter questions
7. Ironies of capital punishment
Escalation
Brutalization versus deterrence
Creation of new categories and net widening
Nonenforcement
Covert facilitation
Forced confessions
Conclusion
End-of-chapter questions
8. War on terror and the misuse of detention
Profiling in the war on terror
Special registration program
Misuse of detention
Government secrecy
The 2003 Inspector General's report
Conclusion
Note
End-of-chapter questions
9. Punitive profit
Production of prisoners
The corrections economy
Privatizing punishment
Corrections-industrial complex
Private prisons, public problems
Accountability and liability
questionable claims of cost savings
Abuse of inmates and security lapses
Reproducing inequality
Economic ironies and rural prisons
Student activism takes aim at prison profiteering
Conclusion
Note
End-of-chapter questions
10. Confronting corrections
Critical penology and the culture of control
Juvenile superpredators
Wilding : manufacturing menace in the media
Three strikes, you're out
A final look at prisonomics
Conclusion
Notes
End-of-chapter questions
Cases.