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ABOUT THE AUTHOR MICHAEL WELCH is professor in the Criminal Justice program at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA). He received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Texas and his research interests include punishment, social control, and human rights. He has published numerous articles for academic journals, edited volumes and other scholarly publications. His key writings have appeared in Punishment & Society, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency, The Prison Journal, International Journal of Comparative Criminology, Criminal Justice: The International Journal of Policy and Practice, Crime, Law & Social Change, Social Justice, Youth & Society, Race, Gender & Class, and Critical Criminology. Also he is author of Ironies of Imprisonment (2005, Sage), Detained : Immigration Laws and the Expanding I.N.S. Jail Complex (2002, Temple University Press),Flag Burning: Moral Panic and the Criminalization of Protest (2000, de Gruyter), Punishment in America (1999, Sage), and Corrections : A Critical Approach (2nd ed., 2004, McGraw-Hill). In 2005, and 2006 –2007, Welch is a visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics. He invites you visit his website at www.professormichaelwelch.com. 15-R3894-AUT 7/28/06 12:47 PM Page 223 15-R3894-AUT 7/28/06 12:47 PM Page 224 ...

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