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Prisons in context
- Title
- Prisons in context / edited by Roy D. King, Mike Maguire.
- Publication
- Oxford, UK : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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- Description
- 159 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- This study compares and contrasts prison systems in different countries, offering a broad view of recent developments in imprisonment theory and practice. Topics include Russian prisons after perestroika, women in prisons, privately-run prisons and human rights in prison.
- Uniform Title
- British journal of criminology. (Special issue)
- Subject
- Prisons > Cross-cultural studies
- Imprisonment > Cross-cultural studies
- Criminal justice, Administration of > Cross-cultural studies
- Juvenile delinquency
- Criminology
- Social behaviour disorders
- Juvenile Delinquency
- Criminology
- criminology
- Juvenile delinquency
- Criminal justice, Administration of
- Imprisonment
- Prisons
- Freiheitsstrafe
- Internationaler Vergleich
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Strafvollzug
- Gevangeniswezen
- Prisons > Etudes transculturelles
- Emprisonnement > Etudes transculturelles
- Justice pénale > Administration > Etudes transculturelles
- Genre/Form
- Cross-cultural studies
- Note
- "This is special issueof of the British Journal of Criminologu."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction--Contexts of imprisonment : an international perspective / Roy D. King and Mike Maguire -- Can prisons be legitimate? Penal politics, privatization, and the timeliness of an old idea / Richard Sparks -- Public imprisonment by private means--the re-emergence of private prisons and jails in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia / Douglas C. McDonald -- The new penology and politics in crisis--the Italian case / Massimo Pavarini -- Russian prisons after perestroika--end of the Gulag? / Roy D. King -- The growth of imprisonment in California / Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins -- Racial disproportion in US prisons / Michael Tonry -- Cross-national imprisonment rates--limitations of method and possible conclusions / Ken Pease -- Why study women's imprisonment? Or anyone else's? An indefinite article / Pat Carlen -- Inspecting prisons--the view from Strasbourg / Rod Morgan and Malcolm Evans.
- ISBN
- 0198258658
- 9780198258650
- LCCN
- 93048887
- OCLC
- ocm29669854
- 29669854
- SCSB-2007652
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library