Comparing Prison Systems

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 ian 1999

This book provides in-depth, orignal and critical analyses by leading scholars of the penal systems of 16 nations around the world, focusing on changes in social structure, culture and punishment since 1975. Contributors provide an international and comparative context in which to understand the impact of recent profound economic, social and political changes on penal theory and practice.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789057005114
ISBN-10: 9057005115
Pagini: 508
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Recenzii

" Weiss and South have put together a book that should become a criminological classic. In my 25 years as a criminologist I have never seen anything like this! A must read for all concerned about the future of the world."

Cuprins

Crime, punishment and the state of prisons in a changing world; punishment in the American democracy - the paradoxes of good intentions; Canadian prisons; the crisis in Mexican prisons - the impact of the United States; power, punishment and prisons in England and Wales - 1975-1996; Germany - ups and downs in the resort to imprisonment; strategic or unplanned outcomes?; facing difference - relations, change and the prison sector in contemporary China; the Japanese experience; penality and imprisonment in Australia; change and continuity in South African prisons.

Notă biografică

Nigel South University of Essex, Robert P. Weiss

Descriere

this book provides in-depth, original and critical analyses by leading scholars of the penal systems of 16 nations around the world, focusing on changes in social structure, culture and punishment since 1975.

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