Punishment in America

MICHAEL WELCH received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Texas and is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA). He has correctional experience at the federal, state, and local levels. His research interests include punishment and social control, and he has published numerous articles for academic journals, edited volumes, and other scholarly publications. His key writings have appeared in Justice Quarterly, Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency, The Prison Journal, Crime, Law & Social Change, Social Justice, Youth & Society, Race, Gender & Class, Critical Criminology: An International Journal, Contemporary Justice Review, American Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Women & Criminal Justice, Journal of Sport & Social Issues, Criminal Justice Policy Review, Journal of Crime & Justice, Addictive Behaviors: An International Journal, Dialectical Anthropology, Journal of Offender Counseling, Services & Rehabilitation, Social Pathology, Crisis Intervention & Time-Limited Treatment, Federal Probation: Journal of Correctional Philosophy & Practice, and The Justice Professional. Also he is author of Detained: Immigration Laws and the Expanding I.N.S. Jail Complex (2002, Temple University Press), Flag Burning: Moral Panic and the Criminalization of Protest (2000, de Gruyter), Punishment in America: Social Control & the Ironies of Imprisonment (1999, Sage), and Corrections: A Critical Approach, (2>nd edition, 2004, McGraw-Hill). He serves as an Affiliate with Center for Mental Health Services and Criminal Justice Research at Rutgers University. Welch invites you to visit his website www.professormichaelwelch.com

Foreword - Todd R Clear Discovery of the Penitentiary and Emergence of Social Control Critical Criminology, Social Justice and an Alternative View of Incarceration The Contours of Race, Social Class and Punishment Exploring Institutional Biases in Corrections The War on Drugs and Correctional Warehousing Alternative Strategies for the Drug Crisis Regulating the Reproduction and Morality of Women The Social Control of Body and Soul Jail Overcrowding Social Sanitation and the Warehousing of the Urban Underclass A Critical Interpretation of Correctional Bootcamps as Normalizing Institutions Discipline, Punishment and the Military Model The Brutal Truth The Reproduction of Prison Violence and the Ironies of Social Control The Machinery of Death Capital Punishment and the Ironies of Social Control The Poverty of Interest in Huamn Rights Violations in US Prisons Prisoners with HIV/AIDS Discrimination, Fringe Punishments and the Production of Suffering The Immigration Crisis Detention as an Emerging Mechanism of Social Control The Corrections Industry Economic Forces and the Prison Enterprise