Table of Contents:
  • How America exports its penal policy
  • From social state to penal state : American realities, European possibilities
  • The great penal leap backward : incarceration in America from Nixon to Clinton
  • Introduction return of the prison
  • 1. How America exports its penal common sense
  • 2. From social state to penal state : American realities, European possibilities
  • 3. great penal leap backward : incarceration in America from Nixon to Clinton
  • Afterword. civic sociology of neoliberal penality.