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Genre/Form: | Cross-cultural studies |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Roy D King; Mike Maguire |
ISBN: | 9780198258650 0198258658 |
OCLC Number: | 912907353 |
Description: | 159 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Introduction (Roy D. King and Mike Maguire) 1. Can Prisons be Legitimate: Penal Politics, Privatisation, and the Timeliness of an Old Idea (Richard Sparks) 2. Public Imprisonment by Private Means: The Re-emergence of Private Prisons and Jails in the United Kingdom, and Australia (Douglas C. McDonald) 3. The New Penology and Politics in Crisis: The Italian Case (Massimo Pavarini) 4. Russian Prisons after Perestroika: End of the Gulag? (Roy D. King) 5. The Growth of Imprisonment in California (Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins) 6. Racial Disproportion in US Prisons (Michael Tonry) 7. Cross-national Imprisonment Rates: Limitations of Method and Possible Conclusions (Ken Pease) 8. Study Women's Imprisonment? Or Anyone Else's? An Indefinite Article (Pat Carlen) 9. Inspecting Prisons: The View from Strasbourg (Rod Morgan and Malcolm Evans). |
Responsibility: | edited by Roy D. King, Mike Maguire. |
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Publisher Synopsis
'As a collection of reflective essays on prison matters it is as good as any other collection I have come across...One of this volume's many strengths, however, is its international focus, and the way in which what seem on the surface to be 'domestic' and immediate political issues in the UK can be relocated in a much broader context.' `There are a number of chapters in this book which AMBoV members should find both interesting and topical.'AMBoV Quarterly A helpful range of introductory essays for Undergraduate students of Crime, criminology and institutional resonses. * Barry Goldson, University of Liverpool * Read more...

