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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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.
–Randall G. Shelden of University of Nevada-Las Vegas
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carceral social zone, prisoners without sentence, carceral spread, penal sector, comparing prison systems, remand imprisonment, prison sector, prison enterprises, official leniency, rehabilitative idea, prison legislation, penal politics, penal developments, penal discourse, reform through education, prison production, probationary supervision, imprisonment rate, penal repression, reform through labor, sentenced women, penal labor, focal population, penal policy, prison capacity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, South Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Home Office, Department of Correctional Services, Western European, World War, Zyl Smit, Mission Statement, Prisons Act, The Hague, Clarendon Press, Americas Watch, Oxford University Press, Correctional Service of Canada, New Jersey, Prison Reform Trust, British Journal of Criminology, Masses Press, North America, United Nations, Big House, Home Secretary New!
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It is necessary to distinguish a trivial from a nontrivial sense of comparative analysis. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
carceral social zone, prisoners without sentence, carceral spread, penal sector, comparing prison systems, remand imprisonment, prison sector, prison enterprises, official leniency, rehabilitative idea, prison legislation, penal politics, penal developments, penal discourse, reform through education, prison production, probationary supervision, imprisonment rate, penal repression, reform through labor, sentenced women, penal labor, focal population, penal policy, prison capacity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, South Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Home Office, Department of Correctional Services, Western European, World War, Zyl Smit, Mission Statement, Prisons Act, The Hague, Clarendon Press, Americas Watch, Oxford University Press, Correctional Service of Canada, New Jersey, Prison Reform Trust, British Journal of Criminology, Masses Press, North America, United Nations, Big House, Home Secretary New!
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- Crime Control as Industry by Nils Christie on 5 pages
- Visions of Social Control: Crime, Punishment and Classification by Stanley Cohen on 5 pages
- Imprisonment Today and Tomorrow:International Perspectives on Prisoners' Rights and Prison Conditions by Dirk Van Zyl Smit on 4 pages
- White Book-Postcard Packet by Dolce & Gabbana on page 325, page 328, and page 334
- Punishment and Social Structure by Georg Rusche on page 232, page 399, and Back Matter
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- Punishment: A Comparative Historical Perspective by Terance D. Miethe on page 111, and Back Matter
- Punishment: A Comparative Historical Perspective by Terance D. Miethe on page 111, and Back Matter
- Power, Discourse and Resistance: A Genealogy of the Strangeways Prison Riot (Advances in Criminology) by Eamonn Carrabine in Back Matter
- Unjust Sentencing and the California Three Strikes Law (Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship) by Douglas W. Kieso in Back Matter
- China Today: Economic Reforms, Social Cohesion and Collective Identities by Taciana Fisac on page 146
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