Punishment, Probation and Parole - Mapping out ‘Mass Supervision’ in International Contexts

In many countries, community-based sanctions and measures such as probation, electronic monitoring and parole vastly outnumber prison sentences. In some places, they are the most common form of sentence imposed in the courts. Yet, despite their increasingly widespread use and their diversifying and intensifying forms, they remain much less studied than imprisonment. Punishment, Probation and Parole seeks to address this neglect and to stimulate others to engage in that task. Bringing together a series of critical and engaging papers by leading scholars, the chapters explore the various dimensions and forms of community-based penalties as they are constructed and experienced in different times and places, producing different socio-penal effects. Addressing pressing debates and emerging concepts, this much-needed collection serves to chart directions for future researchers to explore supervisory forms of punishment.