Description: This book challenges the centrality of the prison in our understanding of punishment, inviting us to see, hear, imagine, analyse and restrain 'mass supervision'. Though rooted in social theory and social research, its innovative approach complements more conventional academic writing with photography, song-writing and storytelling.
Review Quotes: Beginning with the terms probation and parole, McNeill explores the diverse set of sanctions or measure imposed by criminal courts that involve some form of supervision in the community, whether instead of a custodial sentence as in certain forms of suspended or conditional sentences, as a community-based sentence in its own right (like probation in some jurisdiction), or as part of a sentence that begins with imprisonment but extends beyond it as in parole. He looks at the scale and social distribution of such mass supervision, the processes by which it has been legitimated, and how it is experienced by those subject to it.--Annotation (c)2019 "(protoview.com)"