It goes beyond focussing on the prison to address punishment more broadly with contributions on punishment in the community (including after periods of imprisonment) and in areas of the criminal justice system which have typically received less attention such as prison transportation between prisons.

Chapter 1: Time and punishment: an introduction.- Chapter 2: Time, civilisation and ultimate penalities.- Chapter 3: Time and solitary confinement.- Chapter 4: Unmarking prison time during the covid-19 pandemic.- Chapter 5: Time in motion: transport between prisons as planned, lived and experienced time.- Chapter 6: The ‘reintegration paradox’: working towards the future while standing still.- Chapter 7: Time after time: imprisonment, re-entry and enduring temporariness.- Chapter 8: Probation work in the juridical field: a dance to the music of time.- Chapter 9: Criminal court time and social work time: pre-sentence reports and the chronotope of adjourned supervision.

This book provides a novel exploration of time and temporality in relation to punishment and criminal sanctioning. It goes beyond focussing on the prison to address punishment more broadly with contributions on punishment in the community (including after periods of imprisonment) and in areas of the criminal justice system which have typically received less attention such as prison transportation between prisons. The collection also includes a focus on temporality in criminal justice policy, and its potential impacts on speeding up justice, as well as the experiential nature of punishment. The book includes contributions from scholars in UK and Europe, with largely original research, and draws on the international literature. It hopes to encourage punishment scholars to consider how ideas from the sociology of time can inform their own research.

Nicola Carr is Professor of Criminology at the University of Nottingham, UK, and Editor of the Probation Journal. She has researched widely on aspects of the criminal justice system, including on probation and community sanctions and measures and youth justice, as well as people’s experiences of criminal justice processes.

Gwen Robinson is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Sheffield, UK. She has researched and published widely on probation practice, community sanctions and restorative justice.

"​The concepts of ‘time’ and ‘punishment’ in the context of incarceration are so closely intertwined that they seem almost indistinguishable. One clearly informs the other in a historical, physical and psychological interaction. And yet, in another sense, in the mainstream sense that helps shape modern systems of punishment, the idea of time has either been grossly misunderstood, or neglected altogether. In a landmark corrective to this state of affairs, Time and Punishment offers a collection of innovative and penetrating essays that makes salient in an engaging and accessible way, a rich diversity of analyses, frameworks for understanding, and methodologies that have humantemporalities at their core. Skilfully curated by Nicola Carr and Gwen Robinson, who show a keen sense of what is important in the debates’ historical, theoretical and practical dimensions of temporality, the collection is set to be a benchmark for our understanding of what time isand can be—and how it relates to the experience and narratives of punishment in the 21^st Century." (Professor Robert Hassan, University of Melbourne, Editor-in-Chief, Time & Society)

"Although criminologists have a long-standing tradition of exploring matters over time, such as via longitudinal studies of offenders, or studies of the outcomes of criminal justice interventions, time in such studies is a rather 'silenced' variable. Time is allowed to pass, and the differences between t1 and t2 measured, observed and discussed. In this brilliant collection, time is viewed in a different light, and the very nature of time itself is brought into sharp focus. This is, indeed, a very timely collection." (Professor Stephen Farrall, University of Nottingham)

"Temporality has been taken seriously as an analytical and not merely empirical category by many legal anthropologists and some feminist and queer thinkers, but rarely by criminologists. This collection begins a much-needed conversation about the fruitfulness of analyses of punishment that consider how criminal justice practices create new, distinct temporalities, and not only within prisons. It is an important contribution to ‘punishment and society’ studies." (Mariana Valverde, Professor emeritus, Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal studies, University of Toronto)

Explores how specific attention to time allows for new understandings of how punishment works and is experienced Provides a novel exploration of time and temporality in relation to punishment and criminal sanctioning Brings original research, new conceptual framings and theory to a well-established topic

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