Contents:

-- Why prison? : posing the question / David Scott

-- Prisons and social structure in late-capitalist societies / Alessandro De Giorgi

-- The prison paradox in neoliberal britain / Emma Bell

-- Crafting the neoliberal state: workfare, prisonfare, and social insecurity / Loic Wacquant

-- Pleasure, punishment and the professional middle class / Magnus Hornqvist

-- Penal spectatorship and the culture of punishment / Michelle Brown

-- Prison and the public sphere: toward a democratic theory of penal order / Vanessa Barker

-- The iron cage of prison studies / Mark Brown

-- The prison and national identity : citizenship, punishment and the sovereign state / Emma Kaufman and Mary Bosworth

-- Punishing the detritus and the damned : penal and semi-penal institutions in liverpool / Vickie Cooper and Joe Sim

-- Why prison? : incarceration and the great recession / Keally McBride

-- Ghosts of the past, present, and future of penal reform in the United States / Marie Gottschalk

-- Schooling the carceral state: challenging the school to prison pipeline / Erica Meiners

-- Why no prisons? / Julia C. Oparah

-- Unequalled in pain / David Scott.