Punishment and incarceration a global perspective

This volume in the series Sociology of crime, law, and deviance deals with aspects of punishment, including sentencing, incarceration, and prison conditions, in a variety of settings at local, national, and/or regional levels. The book brings together some 14 scholars to contribute their respective...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Deflem, Mathieu
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014.
SeriesSociology of crime, law, and deviance ; v. 19.
Subjects
Punishment.
Imprisonment.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781783509072
ISSN1521-6136 ;
DOI10.1108/S1521-6136201419
Physical Description1 online resource (xii, 273 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • Legitimacy and punitiveness : the role of judicial actors in Italian penality / Zelia Gallo
  • Juvenile justice and incarceration in Turkey / Serkan Tasgin
  • The trajectory of penal markets in a period of austerity : the case of England and Wales / Mary S. Corcoran
  • 'Ceci N'est Pas Une Fouille A Corps' : the denial of strip searches in Belgian prisons / Tom Daems
  • Stuck : conditions of Canadian confinement / Rose Ricciardelli, Hayley Crichton, Lisa Adams
  • Women prisoners : theory and reality in Mexico / Elena Azaola
  • Three waves of American prison development, 1790-1920 / Ashley T. Rubin
  • Native American incarceration : a neglected problem? / Roy F. Janisch
  • Continued imprisonment of terminally ill prisoners in the United States : an international human rights perspective / Aleksandr Khechumyan
  • Sentencing and incarceration in a democratic South Africa / Willem F.M. Luyt
  • Punishment and incarceration in Japan : a net-widening of crime control and a new priority system of prosecution / Shinichi Ishizuka
  • Gender and imprisonment in Hong Kong / Maggy Lee, K. Joe Laidler.

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