Punishment and Control in Historical Perspective

1. Introduction: Histories of Punishment and Control
Helen Johnston

Part I. Theoretical Perspectives

2. Modernity, The New Republic and Sing Sing: The Creation of a Disciplined Workforce and Citizenry
Michael Fiddler

3. Reconceptualising Social Control: A Case-Study in Gender, Punishment and Murder
Anette Ballinger

4. An Honourable Regime of Truth? Foucault, Psychiatry and English Criminal Justice
Tony Ward

Part II. Penal Policy, Prison Practice and Discourses on Offenders

5. Moral Guardians? Prison Officers, Prison Practice and Ambiguity in the Nineteenth Century
Helen Johnston

6. The Man, the Machine and the Myths: Reconsidering Winston Churchill’s Prison Reforms
Jamie Bennett

7. The Paradox of the ‘Respectable Offender’: Responding to the Problem of White-Collar Crime in Victorian and Edwardian England
John P. Locker

8. Controlling the ‘Hopeless’: Re-Visioning the History of Female Inebriate Institutions c. 1870–1920
Bronwyn Morrison

9. Punishment, Reformation, or Welfare: Responses to ‘The Problem’ of Juvenile Crime in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Heather Shore

Part III. Confinement, Discipline and Resistance

10. Prisoner Memoirs and Their Role in Prison History
Sarah Anderson, John Pratt

11. Challenging Discipline and Control: A Comparative Analysis of Prison Riots at Chatham (1861) and Dartmoor (1932)
Alyson Brown

12. Resistance, Identity and Historical Change in Residential Institutions for Juvenile Delinquents, 1950–70
Abigail Wills

13. Concluding Remarks: The ‘Punitive Turn’: The Shape of Punishment and Control in Contemporary Society
Helen Johnston

Avainsanat: History, Social History, Cultural History, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Social Policy, Prison and Punishment