Overview
- Offers readers new content from the authors, as well as a foreword from Jonathan Simon
- Analyses relationship between capitalist economics and social control
- Provides a Marxist perspective on how the penal system developed to deal with changing forms of labour
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)
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This new edition of The Prison and the Factory, a classic work on radical criminology, includes two new, long essays from the authors and a foreword from Professor Jonathan Simon (UC Berkeley). In the two essays, Melossi and Pavarini reflect on the origins, development and fortune of The Prison and the Factory in relation to the debates surrounding mass incarceration that have taken place since this book was first published 40 years ago. The reputation of the original work has long been established worldwide, and this updated version will be of very special interest to scholars of the criminal justice system, penology, and Marxist theory.
This seminal book examines the links between the development of capitalist political economy and changing forms of social control. Melossi and Pavarini analyse the connection between the creation of penal institutions and regimes in Europe and the USA, and the problems generated by the emergence of capitalist
social relations. They provide a thorough neo-Marxist view of emergent capitalism and the penal mechanisms which are constructed to deal with the problem of labour.
Contemporary to but independent from the work of Michel Foucault, Melossi and Pavarini combine research on the development of penal philosophies and institutions with a rigorous account of changing forms of capital accumulation, focusing on the use, and the problem, of labour under capitalist relations.
This seminal book examines the links between the development of capitalist political economy and changing forms of social control. Melossi and Pavarini analyse the connection between the creation of penal institutions and regimes in Europe and the USA, and the problems generated by the emergence of capitalist
social relations. They provide a thorough neo-Marxist view of emergent capitalism and the penal mechanisms which are constructed to deal with the problem of labour.
Contemporary to but independent from the work of Michel Foucault, Melossi and Pavarini combine research on the development of penal philosophies and institutions with a rigorous account of changing forms of capital accumulation, focusing on the use, and the problem, of labour under capitalist relations.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Prison and Labour in Europe and Italy During the Formation of the Capitalist Mode of Production Dario Melossi
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The Penitentiary Invention: The US Experience of the First Half of the Nineteenth Century Massimo Pavarini
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Reviews
“It is wonderful to see this classic brought back into print. This new volume is especially important because of the two new essays by its authors, which assess their work forty years after it first appeared – placing the work in still broader historical context, and in light of recent scholarly and penalogical developments. Both authors also recount how the volume first came about, and in doing so, shed insight on how so much superb scholarship is produced: through good fortune, insatiable curiosity, and hard work. I do not mean to diminish the many extraordinary accomplishments of both Melossi and Pavarini since the publication of this book, but to my mind The Prison and the Factory stands as their crowning achievement. It will be read for the next one hundred years.” (Malcolm Feeley, Claire Sanders Clements Professor, University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dario Melossi is Professor of Criminology in the School of Law of the University of Bologna.
Massimo Pavarini (1947-2015) was Professor of Criminal and Prison Law at the University of Bologna. He was one of the guiding lights of critical criminology throughout Latin America.
Massimo Pavarini (1947-2015) was Professor of Criminal and Prison Law at the University of Bologna. He was one of the guiding lights of critical criminology throughout Latin America.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Prison and the Factory (40th Anniversary Edition)
Book Subtitle: Origins of the Penitentiary System
Authors: Dario Melossi, Massimo Pavarini
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56590-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56589-1Published: 17 January 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56590-7Published: 08 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2753-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0612
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 282
Topics: Popular Social Sciences, Prison and Punishment, Crime and Society, Criminological Theory, Human Rights and Crime , Crime Control and Security