Revolution in Penology: Rethinking the Society of Captives

by Bruce A. Arrigo, Dragan Milovanovic

Overview

Revolution in Penology: Rethinking the Society of Captives is a thoroughly original and thought-provoking critique of penal harm the recursive pains of the improsonment cycle, and the normalization of violence. Relying on selected insights derived from continental philosophy, cultural studies, and chaos theory internationally renowned social theorists Bruce A. Arrigo and Dragan Milovanovic deconstruct the human agency/social structure duality that sustains the prison form, its parts and segments understood as correctional principles/practices, and the prison industrial complex that is informed by and stands above them all.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742565678
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	12/16/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	753 KB

About the Author

Bruce A. Arrigo is professor of crime, law, and society in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
Dragan Milovanovic is professor in the Justice Studies Department at Northeastern Illinois University.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction xvii

Part I Developments in Constitutive Theory and Penology

1 From Constitutive Criminology to Constitutive Penology 3

2 Constitutive Penology 37

3 The Phenomenology of Penal Harm 69

Part II Developments in Constitutive Practice and Penology

4 Constitutive Penology and the "Pains of Imprisonment" 101

5 The Shadow and Stranger in Constitutive Penology 133

Conclusion 161

References 179

Author Index 199

Subject Index 205

About the Authors 213

Editorial Reviews

Arrigo (Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte) and Milovanovic (Northeastern Illinois Univ.) provide a provocative and critical examination of the US penal system. Highly theoretical (postmodern),. .. it is nonetheless very well argued. Recommended.

Choice Reviews

This is an important book....The great strength of the book is that it refrains from trying to offer a comprehensive theory of penological institutions and their effects, and instead attempts to ignite debate as well as a particular praxis.

Punishment & Society

By developing 'constitutive penology,' Arrigo and Milovanovic offer a sophisticated theoretical foundation to an emerging anti-penal harm movement critical of the 30 years prison boom and mass incarceration.... Revolution in Penology offers a fresh perspective on penology, develops a new theoretical perspective on the prison experience, and deepens the critique of penal harm.

Theoretical Criminology

This book is, in my view, quite simply the most important penological text since Discipline and Punish. It should be read by all involved or implicated in the penological enterprise, and that means every one of us.

Social and Legal Studies

Arrigo (Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte) and Milovanovic (Northeastern Illinois Univ.) provide a provocative and critical examination of the US penal system. Highly theoretical (postmodern),. .. it is nonetheless very well argued. Recommended.

November 2009 Choice Reviews

Arrigo (Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte) and Milovanovic (Northeastern Illinois Univ.) provide a provocative and critical examination of the US penal system. Highly theoretical (postmodern),. .. it is nonetheless very well argued. Recommended.

Choice

Arrigo (Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte) and Milovanovic (Northeastern Illinois Univ.) provide a provocative and critical examination of the US penal system. Highly theoretical (postmodern),. .. it is nonetheless very well argued. Recommended.

November 2009 CHOICE

This is an important book....The great strength of the book is that it refrains from trying to offer a comprehensive theory of penological institutions and their effects, and instead attempts to ignite debate as well as a particular praxis.

Punishment and Society