This book provides a wide-ranging, detailed and rigorous examination of this penal voluntary sector, rigorously theorising its varying roles and the effects of charitable work upon prisoners and probationers.

Philippa Tomczak is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield's Centre for Criminological Research. She previously studied Criminology and Geography at the Universities of Oxford and Manchester. She is interested in punishment, particularly the regulation of prison suicide, the penal voluntary sector, and actor-network theory.

1. The Penal Voluntary Sector

2. Punishment and Charity: Historical and Contemporary Context

3. Actor-Network Theory and Its Application

4. Mapping a Loose and Baggy Monster: Scoping the Sector

5. Charitable Innovations in Punishment

6. (In)Voluntary Control

7. The Effects of Charitable Work

8. Conclusions: Punishment and Charity in a Neoliberal Age