Research Catalog

Title

Canadian penology : advanced perspectives and research / edited by Kevin R.E. McCormick and Livy A. Visano.

Publication

Toronto : Canadian Scholars' Press, 1992.

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Additional Authors

• McCormick, Kevin R. E., 1965-
• Visano, L. A.

Description

xii, 460 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Correctional institutions > Canada
• Corrections > Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Bilateral legitimation: the parole pendulum / R.S. Ratner -- Punishing for profit: reflections on the revival of privatization in corrections / Richard V. Ericson, Maeve W. McMahon & Donald G. Evans -- Risky business: The classification of dangerous people in the Canadian Carceral Enterprise / Robert Menzies, Dorothy E. Chunn & Christopher D. Webster -- Regional variation in sentencing of young ofenders in Canada / Carl Keane, Paul Maxim & Martha Dow -- A closed security youth facility: Rehabilitation or joyride? An exploratory study of a murder case processed through the Young Offenders Act / Gary M. O'Bireck -- The use of detention for aboriginal offenders in East James Bay courts / Carol LaPrairie.
• Confronting individual and structural barriers to employment: The employment and skills enhancement (EASE) program for prisoners / Denis C. Bracken & Russell J. Loewen -- Reforming reform institutions / Peter Oliver -- The great repression: criminal punishment in the nineteen-eighties / Michael Mandel -- From big house to big brother: confinement in the future / Ian M. Gomme -- Corrections and community (in) action / K.R.E. McCormick & L.A. Visano -- The dark workship: Life sentences, prison conditions and the politics of punishment / Thomas O'Reilly-Fleming -- Shocked, disciplined and inspected: shock incarceration and cultural sensibilities / Kevin Haggerty.
• Technology and control: generic trends -- Keving R.E. McCormick & Livy A. Visano -- Dare to struggle ... political prisoners and the criminalization of dissent in the United States: Insidious implications for Canadians / Rick Lines.

ISBN

0921627939

LCCN

^^^93101107^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library