Penal Systems

Author : Michael Cavadino,Professor Mick Cavadino,James Dignan
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446202500

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Penal Systems by Michael Cavadino,Professor Mick Cavadino,James Dignan Pdf

'Cavadino and Dignan's Penal Systems: A Comparative Approach looks across national boundaries to see how penal systems differ and why. It is hands-down the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the subject and should become a staple textbook for use in law and social science courses on comparative penal policy and practice' - Michael H. Tonry, University of Minnesota 'This book is an important addition to the literature on punishment. It is a highly readable and very well researched overview of some of the major differences in punitiveness between neo-liberal, corporatist and social democratic countries... This is a major contribution to comparative penology by two of the leading authors in this field' - Alison Liebling, Director of the Prisons Research Centre, UK 'A major and seminal work' - David Downes, Professor Emeritus at the London School of Economics Penal Systems: A Comparative Approach is a comprehensive and original introduction to the comparative study of punishment. Analysing twelve countries, Cavadino and Dignan offer an integrated and theoretically rigorous approach to comparative penology. They draw upon material provided by a team of eminent penologists to produce an important and highly readable contribution to scholarship in this area. Early chapters introduce the reader to comparative penology, set out the theoretical framework and consider whether there is currently a 'global penal crisis'. Each country is then discussed in turn. Chapters on comparative youth justice and the privatization of prisons follow. Comparisons between countries are drawn within each chapter, giving the reader a synoptic and truly comparative vision of penality in different jurisdictions.

Author : Michael Cavadino,James Dignan,George Mair,Jamie Bennett
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526496805

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The Penal System by Michael Cavadino,James Dignan,George Mair,Jamie Bennett Pdf

Now in its Sixth Edition, this book remains the most comprehensive and authoritative on the penal system, providing students with an incisive, critical account of the punitive, managerial and humanitarian approaches to criminal justice. Fully updated to cover the most recent changes in the Criminal Justice System, the new edition: Outlines contemporary policy debates on sentencing, staffing, youth custody and overcrowding. Explores growing inequalities in the criminal justice system including issues of race, religion, gender and sexuality, with new content on faith, and transgender prisoners. Considers the impact of privatisation on the probation service. Discusses the most recent debates around the parole process, including high-profile cases and attempts at reform. The book is supported by online resources for lecturers and students, including chapter PowerPoints, sample syllabus, summaries of key legislative acts, bills and official reports, a list of recommended further reading for each chapter, and links to important Penal Agencies and Organisations, Law Reform Organisations, and other useful academic sites. Essential reading for students of criminal justice and criminology, studying penology, punishments and the penal system.

Author : Nigel South,Robert P. Weiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134389018

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Comparing Prison Systems by Nigel South,Robert P. Weiss Pdf

This book provides in-depth, orignal and critical analyses by leading scholars of the penal systems of 16 nations around the world, focusing on changes in social structure, culture and punishment since 1975. Contributors provide an international and comparative context in which to understand the impact of recent profound economic, social and political changes on penal theory and practice.

Author : Ahmed Othmani,Sophie Bessis
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781845454548

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Beyond Prison by Ahmed Othmani,Sophie Bessis Pdf

“This is an exceptional personal testimony and story of achievement – Ahmed Othmani tells of his own appalling treatment when in detention and how it informed and inspired a lifetime vocation to struggle for the rights of all prisoners everywhere. As the story demonstrates, Othmani is one of those rare individuals who moved from passion and conviction to effective action – he was responsible for the establishment of one of the world’s most reliable and mature human rights organizations, in the field of penal reform, Penal Reform International (PRI). His untimely death in Morocco in 2004 deprived the cause of a passionate advocate, but the work goes on.” [From the Preface]

Author : J. Thorsten Sellin
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781610273398

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Slavery and the Penal System by J. Thorsten Sellin Pdf

The classic and groundbreaking study of penal slavery throughout the ages is available again. Previously a rare book, despite the fact that it is widely quoted and cited by scholars in the field of sociology, penology, and criminology, this book can now be accessed easily worldwide and be assigned again to classes. Now in its fortieth anniversary edition, Sellin's classic Slavery and the Penal System adds a new Foreword by Barry Krisberg at Berkeley. This edition also incorporates changes the author originally planned for a second printing, provided to Quid Pro Books by the Library Special Collections at Penn and authorized by his family. Part of the Classics of Law & Society Series from Quid Pro Books, the anniversary edition also includes explanatory Notes of the Series Editor by Steven Alan Childress, senior professor of law at Tulane University. A book that has become a standard part of the canon in its field, but over time grew to be too expensive for researchers and libraries to obtain, is now easily downloaded in a well-formatted ebook. Other features include linked Contents and notes, fully linked and paginated Index, and close reading of the text against the original so that its legacy is properly and accurately presented. This book traces the direct and indirect influences of the social institution of chattel slavery on the evolution of penal systems and practices in Europe and the United States — a dismal story. The author reveals the darkest and most brutal aspects of penal history and the social forces that resisted or nullified the efforts of reformers who sought to bring about humanization of the punishment. The book shows that domestic punishments inflicted on slaves by masters later become legal punishments for crimes committed by low-class freedmen — eventually to become legal sanctions against offenders regardless of social status. A dominant force is the class and caste structure of society that is reflected in the determination of what conduct should be defined as criminal, who should be punished, and what the punishment should be. Topics include ancient Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages in Europe, galley slaves and naval arsenal prisons in maritime countries, penal creation of public works, the rise of houses of correction, invention of the treadmill, practices in England and Russia, slavery in the antebellum South, and twentieth-century U.S. chain gangs, penal farms, and convict-lease system.

Author : Vincenzo Ruggiero,Mick Ryan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137028211

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Punishment in Europe by Vincenzo Ruggiero,Mick Ryan Pdf

This collection, from a range of leading international scholars, looks at penal practice in a variety of different European countries. Noting particularities as well as similarities, such as the overuse of imprisonment and the use of harsher sanctions against the poor, this book questions how we justify and deliver punishment in Europe.

Author : Viviane Saleh-Hanna
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780776618234

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Colonial Systems of Control by Viviane Saleh-Hanna Pdf

A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the first comprehensive presentation of life inside a West African prison. Chapters by prisoners inside Kirikiri maximum security prison in Lagos, Nigeria are published alongside chapters by scholars and activists. While prisoners document the daily realities and struggles of life inside a Nigerian prison, scholar and human rights activist Viviane Saleh-Hanna provides historical, political, and academic contexts and analyses of the penal system in Nigeria. The European penal models and institutions imported to Nigeria during colonialism are exposed as intrinsically incoherent with the community-based conflict-resolution principles of most African social structures and justice models. This book presents the realities of imprisonment in Nigeria while contextualizing the colonial legacies that have resulted in the inhumane brutalities that are endured on a daily basis. Keywords: Nigeria, West Africa, penal system, maximum-security prison. Published in English.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307819291

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Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault Pdf

A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.

Author : Garrick L. Percival
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781498703147

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Smart on Crime by Garrick L. Percival Pdf

The most punitive era in American history reached its apex in the 1990s, but the trend has reversed in recent years. Smart on Crime: The Struggle to Build a Better American Penal System examines the factors causing this dramatic turnaround. It relates and echoes the increasing need and desire on the part of actors in the American government system

Author : Vincenzo Ruggiero,Mick Ryan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137028211

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Punishment in Europe by Vincenzo Ruggiero,Mick Ryan Pdf

This collection, from a range of leading international scholars, looks at penal practice in a variety of different European countries. Noting particularities as well as similarities, such as the overuse of imprisonment and the use of harsher sanctions against the poor, this book questions how we justify and deliver punishment in Europe.

Author : Mitchel P. Roth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313060427

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Prisons and Prison Systems by Mitchel P. Roth Pdf

Prisons have undoubtedly changed over the years, as have penal practices in general, though more so in some countries than others. Prisons and prison systems have long been an overlooked part of criminal justice research, and as a result, limited material is available on many institutions. This comprehensive encyclopedia provides a historical overview of institutions and systems around the world, as well as penal theories, prisoner culture and life, and notable prisoners and personnel. Readers will find a plethora of information including material on such famous prisons as the Tower of London and Alcatraz, as well as on such topics as boot camps and parole. Other entries include Devil's Island, supermaximum prisons, Nelson Mandela, Pennsylvania system, and Amnesty International. Numerous appendixes list famous prisoners, prison museums, prison slang, and more.

Author : Vincenzo Ruggiero,Mick Ryan,Joe Sim
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015035022246

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Western European Penal Systems by Vincenzo Ruggiero,Mick Ryan,Joe Sim Pdf

A description of how the penal system, including both prisons and alternatives to custody, is organized in eight major Western European countries. Each chapter provides readers with an anatomy and empirical overview of the full range of penal sanctions used in each country.

Author : Andrew Skotnicki
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190880842

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Conversion and the Rehabilitation of the Penal System by Andrew Skotnicki Pdf

The Cincinnati Penal Congress of 1870 ushered in the era of "progressive" penology: the use of statistical and social scientific methodologies, commitment to psychiatric and therapeutic interventions, and a new innovation--the reformatory--as the locus for the application of these initiatives. The prisoner was now seen as a specimen to be analyzed, treated, and properly socialized into the triumphal current of American social and economic life. The Progressive rehabilitative initiatives succumbed in the 1970s to withering criticism from the proponents of equally futile strategies for addressing "the crime problem": retribution, deterrence, and selective incapacitation. The early Christian community developed a methodology for correcting human error that featured the unprecedented belief that a period of time spent in a given penitential locale, with the aid and encouragement of the community, was sufficient in and of itself to heal the alienation and self-loathing caused by sin and to lead an individual to full reincorporation into the community. The "correctional" practice was based upon the conviction that cooperative sociability--or conversion--is possible, regardless of the specific offense, without any need to inflict suffering, or to use the act of punishment as a warning to potential offenders, or to undertake programmatic interventions into the lives of the incarcerated for the purpose of rehabilitating them. Andrew Skotnicki contends that the modern practice of criminal detention is a protracted exercise in needless violence predicated upon two foundational errors. The first is an inability to see the imprisoned as human beings fully capable of responding to an affirmative accompaniment rather than maltreatment and invasive forms of therapy. The second is a pervasive dualism that constructs a barrier between detainees and those empowered to supervise, rehabilitate, and punish them. In this book, Skotnicki argues that the criminal justice system can only be rehabilitated by eliminating punishment and policies based upon deterrence, rehabilitation, and the incapacitation of the urban poor and returning to the original justification for the practice of confinement: conversion.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Communism
ISBN : LOC:00184304740

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Revolutionary Activities Directed Toward the Administration of Penal Or Correctional Systems by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security Pdf

Author : Sarah Hean,Berit Johnsen,Anu Kajamaa,Laure Kloetzer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030706616

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Improving Interagency Collaboration, Innovation and Learning in Criminal Justice Systems by Sarah Hean,Berit Johnsen,Anu Kajamaa,Laure Kloetzer Pdf

This Open Access edited collection seeks to improve collaboration between criminal justice and welfare services in order to help prepare offenders for life after serving a prison sentence. It examines the potential tensions between criminal justice agencies and other organisations which are involved in the rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders, most notably those engaged in mental health care or third sector organisations. It then suggests a variety of different methods and approaches to help to overcome such tensions and promote inter-agency collaboration and co-working, drawing on emerging research and models, with a focus on the practice in European and Scandinavian countries. For academics and practitioners working in prisons and the penal system, this collection will be invaluable.