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The prisoners' dilemma : political economy and punishment in contemporary democracies /
"Over the last two decades, in the wake of increases in recorded crime and a cluster of other social changes, British criminal justice policy has become increasingly politicised: both the scale and intensity of punishment and the significance of criminal justice policy as an index of government...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Hamlyn lectures ;
2007. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Over the last two decades, in the wake of increases in recorded crime and a cluster of other social changes, British criminal justice policy has become increasingly politicised: both the scale and intensity of punishment and the significance of criminal justice policy as an index of governments' competence have developed in new and worrying ways. Across the Atlantic, we witness the inexorable rise of the US prison population, amid a ratcheting-up of penal severity which seems unstoppable in the face of popular anxiety about crime." "But is this inevitable? Nicola Lacey argues that harsh 'penal populism' is not the inevitable fate of all contemporary democracies. Notwithstanding a degree of convergence, 'globalisation' has left many of the key institutional differences between national systems intact, and these help to explain the striking differences in the capacity for penal moderation of otherwise relatively similar societies. Only by understanding the institutional preconditions for a tolerant criminal justice system can we think clearly about the possible options for reform within particular systems."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 234 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-223) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511415227 0511415222 9780511819247 0511819242 1107188113 9781107188112 1281751219 9781281751218 9786611751210 6611751211 0511414544 9780511414541 0511412932 9780511412936 0511412002 9780511412004 0511413858 9780511413858 |