Author : Kelly Hannah-Moffat
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802082749
A look at some current forms of penal governance in Canadian federal women's prisons and a suggestion that the prison system itself, given its primary functions of custody and punishment, is consistent in thwarting attempts at progressive reform.
Author : Thomas G. Blomberg
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 19,18 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780202307015
While crime, law, and punishment are subjects that have everyday meanings not very far from their academic representations, "social control" is one of those terms that appear in the sociological discourse without any corresponding everyday usage. This concept has a rather mixed lineage. "After September 11" has become a slogan that conveys all things to all people but carries some very specific implications on interrogation and civil liberties for the future of punishment and social control. The editors hold that the already pliable boundaries between ordinary and political crime will become more unstable; national and global considerations will come closer together; domestic crime control policies will be more influenced by interests of national security; measures to prevent and control international terrorism will cast their reach wider (to financial structures and ideological support); the movements of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers will be curtailed and criminalized; taken-for-granted human rights and civil liberties will be restricted. In the midst of these dramatic social changes, hardly anyone will notice the academic field of "punishment and social control" being drawn closer to political matters. Criminology is neither a "pure" academic discipline nor a profession that offers an applied body of knowledge to solve the crime problem. Its historical lineage has left an insistent tension between the drive to understand and the drive to be relevant. While the scope and orientation of this new second edition remain the same, in recognition of the continued growth and diversity of interest in punishment and social control, new chapters have been added and several original chapters have been updated and revised.
Author : Cesare Beccaria
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 1584776382
Reprint of the fourth edition, which contains an additional text attributed to Voltaire. Originally published anonymously in 1764, Dei Delitti e Delle Pene was the first systematic study of the principles of crime and punishment. Infused with the spirit of the Enlightenment, its advocacy of crime prevention and the abolition of torture and capital punishment marked a significant advance in criminological thought, which had changed little since the Middle Ages. It had a profound influence on the development of criminal law in Europe and the United States.
Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307819299
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Author : Pat Carlen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134000987
In the last decade there has been growing international concern about the increasing numbers of women in prison, the effects that imprisonment has on their children, the realisation that gaoled women have different criminal profiles and rehabilitative needs to male prisoners, and the seeming intractability of the associated problems. In response there has been an overarching policy concern in many countries to fashion and co-ordinate gender-specific policies towards female offenders which aim both to slow down the rate of their offending and/or imprisonment, and also to engender flexible programmes which will reduce the time spent in custody and/or away from their young children. The major objective of this book is to describe and analyse contemporary opportunities for, and barriers to, both the reduction of female prison populations and the reduction of the pain of those women who continue to be imprisoned. It assesses the most important recent attempts to reduce both women's imprisonment and the damage it does, identifying and analyzing cross-jurisdiction and gender-specific lessons to be learned, and the unexpected consequences of some of the reform strategies. This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners in the field, providing a critique of the reform initiatives which have taken place, and a much-needed theorization of cross-national policy in this area. It will be essential reading for all with an interest in prisons and prison reform.
Author : Sir Norman Lockyer
Publisher :
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 50,81 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN :
Author : Jeremy Bentham
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 1830
Category : History
ISBN :
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Author : William Jethro Brown
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Legislation
ISBN : 1584776528
Author : British Association for the Advancement of Science
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : John Muncie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 47,73 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 1135334331
Written by some of the leading criminologists in the country, this new title is a 'one-stop shop' for those who teach, study or are interested in criminology and the criminal justice systems of the UK.
