This new edition of The Prison & the Factory a classic work on radical criminology
Includes:: two new long essays from the authors & a foreword from Professor Jonathan Simon (UC Berkeley) In the two essays Melossi & Pavarini reflect on the origins development & fortune of The Prison & the Factory in relation to the debates surrounding mass incarceration that have taken place since this book was first published 40 years ago The reputation of the original work has long been established worldwide & this updated version will be of very special interest to scholars of the criminal justice system penology & Marxist theory This seminal book examines the links between the development of capitalist political economy & changing forms of social control Melossi & Pavarini analyse the connection between the creation of penal institutions & regimes in Europe & the USA & the problems generated by the emergence of capitalist social relations They provide a thorough neo-Marxist view of emergent capitalism & the penal mechanisms which are constructed to deal with the problem of labour Contemporary to but independent from the work of Michel Foucault Melossi & Pavarini combine research on the development of penal philosophies & institutions with a rigorous account of changing forms of capital accumulation focusing on the use & the problem of labour under capitalist relations