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The new punitiveness : trends, theories, perspectives /

Throughout much of the western world more and more people are being sent to prison, one of a number of changes inspired by a 'new punitiveness' in penal and political affairs. This book seeks to understand these developments, bringing together leading authorities in the field to provide a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pratt, John, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cullompton, Devon ; Portland, Or. : Willan Pub., 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Punitive trends
  • 1. The great penal leap backward : incarceration in America from Nixon to Clinton / Loic Wacquant
  • 2. Continuity, rupture, or just more of the 'volatile and contradictory'? : glimpses of New South Wales' penal practice behind and through the discursive / David Brown
  • 3. Crime control in Western countries, 1970 to 2000 / Lyn Hinds
  • 4. Supermax meets death row : legal struggles around the new punitiveness in the US / Mona Lynch
  • 5. The liberal veil : revisiting Canadian penalty / Dawn Moore and Kelly Hannah-Moffat
  • 6. Contemporary statecraft and the 'punitive obsession' : a critique of the new penology / Roy Coleman and Joe Sim
  • pt. 2. Globalization, technology, and surveillance.