Brief Introduction to Prison, State, and Violence Intersections -- From Mass Incarceration to a Culture of Control -- Class, Race, and Hyperincarceration in Revanchist America (Republication) -- The Welfare Culture Crisis and the Socialising Intervention in Prison -- Prison, Ethnicities and State: Establishing Theoretical and Empirical Connections -- Prison in Spain and Social Exclusion Policies -- The Perceptions of Foreign Organized Crime Groups Inside Portuguese Prisons: Cross-Problems on "First Capital Command PCC" Brazilian Leading Cases and Constructed Stereotypes -- Contested Terrains and Incubators of Violence: Carceral Establishments in Democratic Brazil -- Foreign National Women Arrested for Drug Trafficking: A Dynamic Socio-Penal Portrait -- Permeable Prison Walls: Social Relationships, Symbolic Violence and Reproduction of Inequalities -- The Evolution of Detaining Accompanied Migrant Minors Without a Residence Permit in Belgium -- Finding a Way Out of Prison: Portugal, A Collaborative Model.