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Punishment & Society is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis, Crime Patterns and Interventions, Homelessness and Social Issues. Over its lifetime it has published 1,498 papers, which have received 31,190 citations.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Punishment & Society, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis Crime Patterns and Interventions Homelessness and Social Issues Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance |
| ISSN | 1462-4745 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 1.47 |
| h-index | 88 |
| i10-index | 518 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Toronto |
| Journal website | www.sagepub.com |
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To explain the astounding over-representation of blacks behind bars that has driven mass imprisonment in the United States, one must break out of the `crime-and-punishment' paradigm to reckon the extra-penological function of the criminal justice system as instrument for the management of dispossessed and dishonored groups. This article places the prison in the historical sequence…
The ‘pains of imprisonment’ have been a longstanding concern within prison sociology. This article revisits the topic, suggesting that modern penal practices have created some new burdens and frustrations that differ from other pains in their causes, nature and effects. It notes that the pains of imprisonment can be divided up conceptually, and to some…
Rapid growth of the US penal population over the last two decades has coincided with a decline in the number of welfare recipients. While shifts in crime rates, economic and political considerations most commonly account for variations in incarceration, we place the rise in incarceration levels in the institutional context of welfare state retrenchment. An…
In this article Michel Foucault’s method of writing a “history of the present” is explained, together with its critical objectives and its difference from conventional historiography. Foucault’s shift from a style of historical research and analysis conceived as “archaeology” to one understood as “genealogy” is also discussed, showing how the history of the present deploys…
This article examines the discrepancies between theories of risk and penality and emergent strategies of risk/need identification and management. Working back from the strategies themselves, I argue that the current generations of risk/need technologies are a significant departure from the pessimistic theoretical accounts of risk in criminal justice associated with the ‘new penology’ and ‘actuarial…
