The Borders of Punishment (Hardback) | Released: 24 Aug 2013

The Borders of Punishment: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Exclusion critically assesses the relationship between immigration control, citizenship, and criminal justice. It reflects on the theoretical and methodological challenges posed by mass mobility and its control and for the first time, sets out a particular sub-field within criminology, the criminology of mobility. Drawing together leading international scholars with newer researchers, the book systematically outlines why criminology and criminal justice should pay more attention to issues of immigration and border control.

Contributors consider how 'traditional' criminal justice institutions such as the criminal law, police, and prisons are being shaped and altered by immigration, as well as examining novel forms of penalty (such as deportation and detention facilities), which have until now seldom featured in criminological studies and textbooks. In so doing, the book demonstrates that mobility and its control are matters that ought to be central to any understanding of the criminal justice system. Phenomena such as the controversial use of immigration law for the purposes of the war on terror, closed detention centers, deportation, and border policing, raise in new ways some of the fundamental and enduring questions of criminal justice and criminology: What is punishment? What is crime? What should be the normative and legal foundation for criminalization, for police suspicion, for the exclusion from the community, and for the deprivation of freedom? And who is the subject of rights within a society
and what is the relevance of citizenship to criminal justice?

About the Author:
Katja Franko Aas, Professor of Criminology, University of Oslo, Mary Bosworth, Reader in Criminology, University of Oxford and, concurrently, Professor of Criminology, Monash University

Katja Franko Aas is Professor of Criminology at the department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo. She is author of Cosmopolitan Justice and its Discontents (co-edited with C. Baillet, Routledge, 2011), Technologies of Insecurity (co-edited with H.M. Lomell and H. O. Gundhus, Routledge, 2009), Globalization and Crime (SAGE, 2007), and Sentencing in the Age of Information: from Faust to Macintosh (Routledge, 2005). She is currently leading a research project on the intersections of migration control and crime control.

Mary Bosworth is Reader in Criminology and Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford and concurrently, Professor of Criminology at Monash University, Australia. She has published widely on issues to do with race, gender, and citizenship with a particular focus on prisons and immigration detention. She is currently working on a 5 year ERC Starter Grant, entitled 'Subjectivity, Identity and Penal Power: Incarceration in a Global Age.'