Gebundenes Buch

Electronically Monitored Punishment

International and Critical Perspectives

Herausgeber: Nellis, Mike; Kaminski, Dan; Beyens, Kristel

Beschreibung

This book addresses the broader factors in the advance of Electronic Monitoring, developing a critical criminological perspective on electronic monitoring in selective countries around the world including the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Sweden, France and Belgium. This book seeks to provide academics, policy audiences and practitioners with the intellectual resources to understand and address the challenges which EM poses.

Autor

Mike Nellis is Emeritus Professor of Criminal and Community Justice in the School of Law, University of Strathclyde, UK. He was formerly a social worker with young offenders, has a PhD from the Institute of Criminology in Cambridge, and was involved in the training of probation officers at the University of Birmingham. He has written widely on the fortunes of the probation service, alternatives to imprisonment and particularly the electronic monitoring of offenders. Kristel Beyens is Professor of Penology and Criminology at the Criminology Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. She has published on prison overcrowding, sentencing and the implementation of prison sentences and sentences in the community, such as electronic monitoring and community service. She is a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Probation and of the European Working Group on Community Sanctions. Dan Kaminski is Professor at the UCLouvain (University of Louvain-la-Neuve), Belgium, and President of the CRID&P (Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Deviance and Penality). He holds a PhD in Criminology and has published on managerialism, penal treatment of drug use, prisoners' rights, alternatives to prison and electronic monitoring.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Willan
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9781843922735
• ISBN-10: 1843922738
• Artikelnr.: 23194463