Nigel South, Robert P. Weiss

Comparing Prison Systems

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 510
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 731g
• ISBN-13: 9789057005114
• ISBN-10: 9057005115
• Artikelnr.: 37148928

Autorenporträt

Nigel South University of Essex, Robert P. Weiss

Inhaltsangabe

Crime, punishment and the state of prisons in a changing world
punishment in the American democracy - the paradoxes of good intentions
Canadian prisons
the crisis in Mexican prisons - the impact of the United States
power, punishment and prisons in England and Wales - 1975-1996
Germany - ups and downs in the resort to imprisonment
strategic or unplanned outcomes?
facing difference - relations, change and the prison sector in contemporary China
the Japanese experience
penality and imprisonment in Australia
change and continuity in South African prisons.