The Prison and the Factory (40th Anniversary Edition): Origins of the Penitentiary System (Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology)

Melossi, Dario; Pavarini, Massimo

ISBN 10: 1137565896 / ISBN 13: 9781137565891

Published by Palgrave Macmillan (edition Second Edition 2018), 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Prison and the Factory (40th Anniversary Edition): Origins of the Penitentiary System (Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (edition Second Edition 2018)
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137565896
• ISBN 13: 9781137565891
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Second Edition 2018.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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. 

About the Author

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.