Overview
- Explores how specific attention to time allows for new understandings of how punishment works and is experienced
- Provides a novel exploration of time and temporality in relation to punishment and criminal sanctioning
- Brings original research, new conceptual framings and theory to a well-established topic
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides a novel exploration of time and temporality in relation to punishment and criminal sanctioning. It goes beyond focussing on the prison to address punishment more broadly with contributions on punishment in the community (including after periods of imprisonment) and in areas of the criminal justice system which have typically received less attention such as prison transportation between prisons. The collection also includes a focus on temporality in criminal justice policy, and its potential impacts on speeding up justice, as well as the experiential nature of punishment. The book includes contributions from scholars in UK and Europe, with largely original research, and draws on the international literature. It hopes to encourage punishment scholars to consider how ideas from the sociology of time can inform their own research.
Reviews
"Although criminologists have a long-standing tradition of exploring matters over time, such as via longitudinal studies of offenders, or studies of the outcomes of criminal justice interventions, time in such studies is a rather 'silenced' variable. Time is allowed to pass, and the differences between t1 and t2 measured, observed and discussed. In this brilliant collection, time is viewed in a different light, and the very nature of time itself is brought into sharp focus. This is, indeed, a very timely collection." (Professor Stephen Farrall, University of Nottingham)
"Temporality has been taken seriously as an analytical and not merely empirical category by many legal anthropologists and some feminist and queer thinkers, but rarely by criminologists. This collection begins a much-needed conversation about the fruitfulness of analyses of punishment that consider how criminal justice practices create new, distinct temporalities, and not only within prisons. It is an important contribution to ‘punishment and society’ studies." (Mariana Valverde, Professor emeritus, Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal studies, University of Toronto)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nicola Carr is Professor in Criminology at the University of Nottingham, UK, and Editor of the Probation Journal. She has researched widely on aspects of the criminal justice system, including on probation and community sanctions and measures and youth justice, as well as people’s experiences of criminal justice processes.
Gwen Robinson is Professor in Criminal Justice at the University of Sheffield, UK. She has researched and published widely on probation practice, community sanctions and restorative justice.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Time and Punishment
Book Subtitle: New Contexts and Perspectives
Editors: Nicola Carr, Gwen Robinson
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12108-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12107-4Published: 03 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12110-4Published: 04 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12108-1Published: 02 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2753-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 257
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Prison and Punishment, Crime and Society, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Work and Community Development, Comparative Social Policy