Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1: Sarah Armstrong and Lesley McAra: Audience, borders,
architecture: the contours of control
2: Richard Sparks: Ordinary anxieties and states of emergency:
statecraft and spectatorship in the new politics of insecurity
3: Lindsay Farmer: Tony Martin and the nightbreakers: criminal law,
victims and the power to punish
4: Evi Girling: European identity, penal sensibilities and
communities of sentiment
5: Loïc Wacquant: Penalization, depoliticization, racialization: on
the over-incarceration of immigrants in the European Union
6: Laura Piacentini: Prisons during transition: promoting a common
penal identity through international norms
7: Thomas Mathiesen: The globalization of control - towards a
control system without a state?
8: David Downes and Kirstine Hansen: Welfare and punishment in
comparative perspective
9: Neil Hutton: Sentencing as a Social Practice
10: Richard Jones: 'Architecture', criminal justice, and
control
11: Andrew Scull: Power, social control, and psychiatry: some
critical reflections
12: Malcolm Feeley: Origins of actuarial justice
Sarah Armstrong is a lecturer in criminology and a member of the
Centre for Law and Society, University of Edinburgh. Her current
research is in the sociology of punishment and focuses on
developing a sociology of accountability, analysing privatization
in justice and punishment, and contributing to social and cultural
scholarship on risk. Lesley McAra is a senior lecturer in
criminology and a member of the Centre for Law and Society,
University of Edinburgh. She
writes and teaches in the fields of the sociology of punishment,
youth crime and justice, gender, and crime and criminal justice.
Currently she is a co-director of a major programme of research
funded
by the ESCR, Scottish Executive and the Nuffield Foundation on
youth transitions and crime.
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