1st Edition
The Politics of Prison Crowding A Critical Analysis of the Italian Prison System
Introduction
Part I - Conceptual challenges on punishment and imprisonment
Chapter 1 - Literature review: carceral state and managerial turn
Chapter 2 - The roots of the transformation of the Italian prison system
Chapter 3 - Fracturing the Italian carceral system
Chapter 4 - Prison crowding: From harm denial to the managerial turn
Part II - Researching the Italian carceral landscape: Methodology
Chapter 5 –Space and time in overcrowded prisons: ‘4 sqm means nothing’
Chapter 6 - The Economy of Prison Life
Chapter 7 - Redrawing the Colour Line behind bars
Chapter 8 - Rehabilitation and dynamic security in the Italian prison: challenges in transforming prison officers’ roles
Conclusion: Some final remarks
Biography
Simone Santorso is a lecturer at the University of Sussex. Simone’s principal research interests are punishment, prison, and detention. Additionally, he has been a principal or co-investigator on research projects on prison and punishment, gang and organised crime, and police and technology. Simone’s research brings together theoretical concepts, findings and insights from a variety of disciplinary fields, especially sociology, anthropology, law, and history. He is the author of several journal articles, reports, chapters, and books and is a founding member of the European Prison Observatory.
