Comparing prison systems : toward a comparative and international penology / edited by Robert P. Wei...
Comparing prison systems : toward a comparative and international penology / edited by Robert P. Wei...
Comparing prison systems : toward a comparative and international penology / edited by Robert P. Weiss and Nigel South.
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N365/46
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xx, 488 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: crime and punishment and the "state of prisons" in a changing world / Nigel South and Robert P. Weiss. Punishment in the American democracy: the paradoxes of good intentions / Dario Melossi and Mark G. Lettiere -- Canadian prisons / Bob Gaucher and John Lowman -- The crisis in Mexican...
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"This edited volume compares and contrasts the prison systems of sixteen nations throughout the world, approaching them along a variety of dimensions and focusing on patterns of crisis and change over the last two decades." "Filling a lacuna in comparative studies of penal practice, this book identifies the common and unique problems that penal sys...
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Comparing prison systems : toward a comparative and international penology / edited by Robert P. Weiss and Nigel South.
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International studies in global change ; v. 8.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N365/46
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9057005115
9789057005107
9057005107
9789057005114
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365
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991011325109702626
