Visions of Prisons

Wars, Walls, and Watching

Michael Welch (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

276 Seiten

2026
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-42322-0 (ISBN)

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Visions of Prisons is an inquiry into the enduring meaning of containment and surveillance in post-conflict societies. With a focus on the partitioned cities of Northern Ireland and divided Berlin, Michael Welch details how conflict led to the construction of walls that in turn produced coercive forms of watching. Long after the end of the armed conflicts that first gave rise to these structures, the walls continue to perpetuate an urban environment that imagines certain people kept inside a designated social space and others kept out. Merging penology with surveillance studies, Visions of Prisons grounds its theoretical exploration in the author’s own photographs, which invite readers to participate in an interdisciplinary visual analysis of salient sites in the former East Germany and Northern Ireland.

Michael Welch is Professor at Rutgers University and Visiting Professor at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He is author of several books, including The Bastille Effect and Escape to Prison.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.4.2026
Zusatzinfo	25 b-w figures
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-42322-4 / 0520423224
ISBN-13	978-0-520-42322-0 / 9780520423220
Zustand	Neuware