The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can we understand the place that

We are living in what might be considered a 'carceral world'. Practices, performances, spatialities, imaginaries, and experiences of incarceration are widesprea

We live a world in which the number of prisons is growing and experiences of incarceration are increasingly widespread. Carceral Worlds offers a necessary and t

The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can we understand the place that

Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and