TPS (215mmx148mm) ISBN:1-904-380-22-0 (215mmx148mm) (210) Prison On Trial Thomas Mathiesen is Professor of Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo and was one of the founders of the Norwegian Association for Penal Reform. His publications in English include The Defence of the Weak (Tavistock, 1965), The Politics of Abolition (Martin Robertson, 1974), Law, Society and Political Action (Academic Press, 1980) and Silently Silenced: Essays on the Creation ofAcquiescence in Modern Society (Waterside Press, 2004). Prison On Trial has appeared in Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, German, English, Spanish, Italian and is now being translated into Chinese. ii Prison On Trial Prison On Trial Thomas Mathiesen Third English edition (2006) This third edition of Prison On Trial contains all the material from the first and second English editions together with a new Foreword, Preface and Epilogue and other revisions. Published by WATERSIDE PRESS DomumRoad Winchester S023 9NN United Kingdom Telephone or Fax 01962 855567 UK Local-call 08452300733 E-mail:
[email protected] Online catalogue and bookstore: www.watersidepress.co.uk Copyright © Thomas Mathiesen 2006. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, including over the Internet, without prior permission. ISBN 1 904 380 22 0 Waterside Press Criminal Policy Series Editor Andrew Rutherford First edition The first English edition of Prison on Trial was published by Sage Publications Ltd. in 1990 (ISBN 080398225 9). This was a revised and updated edition of a Norwegian version published by Pax, Oslo in 1987.