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Gordon and Breach
Language
English
Pages
488

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Subjects
Administration of Criminal justice, Cross-cultural studies, Imprisonment, Prisons, Corrections, Études transculturelles, Emprisonnement

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Table of 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 prisons: the impact of the United States / J. Michael Olivero
The state of prisons and prisoners in four countries of the Andean Region / Rosa del Olmo
The buckling of the shields: Dutch penal policy 1985-1995 / David Downes
Power, punishment and prisons in England and Wales 1975-1996 / Mick Ryan and Joe Sim
The country of Cesare Beccaria: the myth of rehabilitation in Italy / Vincenzo Ruggiero
Germany: ups and downs in the resort to imprisonment
strategic or unplanned outcomes? / Hartmut Weber and Johannes Feest
Penal practice and social theory in Poland before and after the events of 1989 / Monika Platek
Facing difference: relations, change and the prison sector in contemporary China / Michael Dutton and Xu Zhangrun
The Japanese experience: effects of decreasing resort to imprisonment / Elmer H. Johnson
Penality and imprisonment in Australia / David Brown
Change and continuity in South African prisons / Dirk van Zyl Smit
Conclusion: imprisonment at the millennium 2000
its variety and patterns throughout the world / Robert P. Weiss.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
International studies in global change ;, v. 8
Genre
Cross-cultural studies.

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365
Library of Congress
HV9443 .C65 1998, HV9443.C65 1998, HV8665 .S68 2013eb, HV 9443 C65 1998

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xx, 488 p. :
Number of pages
488

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OL116286M
ISBN 10
9057005107
LCCN
99458393
OCLC/WorldCat
40510939, 872682306
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2282140
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