Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration

Professor Chris Cunneen is a conjoint professor of criminology in the Faculty of Law of the University of New South Wales. He held the NewSouth Global Chair in Criminology at UNSW from 2006 to 2010. Professor Eileen Baldry's main areas of research and publishing are in: the criminal justice system focusing on critical criminology-critical disability studies development, vulnerable persons and minority groups - people with mental health disorders and cognitive disability, women and Indigenous persons; throughcare, transition from prison, post-release and homelessness; and criminal justice-human service system interactions; and in Indigenous social work; and community and social development in social housing. Emeritus Professor David Brown taught Criminal Law, Advanced Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, Crime Prevention, Community Corrections and Penology courses at the University of NSW in Sydney from 1974 to 2008. Dr Mark Brown's primary teaching and research interests lie in the areas of penality, corrections and colonial penal history. Alex Steel is the Associate Dean (Education) and an Associate Professor in the Law School. He has published widely on theft, fraud and dishonesty law and theory.

Penal culture: the meaning of imprisonment; Global convictism and the postcolonial; Parliaments, courts and imprisonment rates; Correctional paradigms: the rise of risk; Suitable enemies: penal subjects; Reinvigorating the prison: new perspectives on containment; Penal culture; transmission, normalisation and reproduction; Winding back mass imprisonment?; Manifestations of contemporary penal culture; Bibliography; Index.