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The Penal System

Author : Michael Cavadino,James Dignan,George Mair,Jamie Bennett
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 48,5 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.

Penal Systems

Author : Michael Cavadino,Professor Mick Cavadino,James Dignan
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,9 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.

Slavery and the Penal System

Author : J. Thorsten Sellin
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781610273398

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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.

Smart on Crime

Author : Garrick L. Percival
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,5 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

Conversion and the Rehabilitation of the Penal System

Author : Andrew Skotnicki
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 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.

The Penal System

Author : Mick Cavadino,Michael Cavadino,James Dignan,George Mair
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446276488

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

Supporting students across their entire module, this authoritative and widely respected text has been fully updated to include the most recent changes in the field and has expanded coverage of restorative justice, gender, and comparative issues

The Penal System

Author : Michael Cavadino,James Dignan
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : NWU:35556034310730

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The Penal System by Michael Cavadino,James Dignan Pdf

Praise for the First Edition: `The authors appear to do an excellent job of describing the criminal justice system of England, and how the penal system fits into, and is affected by it' - Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice The Third Edition of this highly successful textbook provides an accessible introduction to the penal system of England and Wales. Now fully revised and updated it includes an examination of the direction of penal policy under New Labour.

Punishment in Europe

Author : Vincenzo Ruggiero,Mick Ryan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,5 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.

Discipline and Punish

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,7 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.

Comparing Prison Systems

Author : Nigel South,Robert P. Weiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134388943

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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.

The Deviant Prison

Author : Ashley T. Rubin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108484947

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The Deviant Prison by Ashley T. Rubin Pdf

A compelling examination of the highly criticized use of long-term solitary confinement in Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary during the nineteenth century.

Mental Health Law in Context

Author : Michael Cavadino
Publisher : Dartmouth Publishing Company
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015015448130

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Mental Health Law in Context by Michael Cavadino Pdf

The author examines, within its proper social and philosophical context, British mental health law and how it operates. The law is examined in practice, most specifically as it relates to the admissions policies of psychiatric hospitals, weighing the relative merits of "civil" (forced) vs "informal" (voluntary) admission.

Colonial Systems of Control

Author : Viviane Saleh-Hanna
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,5 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.

Ethical Considerations for Research Involving Prisoners

Author : Committee on Ethical Considerations for Revisions to DHHS Regulations for Protection of Prisoners Involved in Research,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309164603

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Ethical Considerations for Research Involving Prisoners by Committee on Ethical Considerations for Revisions to DHHS Regulations for Protection of Prisoners Involved in Research,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Institute of Medicine Pdf

In the past 30 years, the population of prisoners in the United States has expanded almost 5-fold, correctional facilities are increasingly overcrowded, and more of the country's disadvantaged populations—racial minorities, women, people with mental illness, and people with communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, and tuberculosis—are under correctional supervision. Because prisoners face restrictions on liberty and autonomy, have limited privacy, and often receive inadequate health care, they require specific protections when involved in research, particularly in today's correctional settings. Given these issues, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Human Research Protections commissioned the Institute of Medicine to review the ethical considerations regarding research involving prisoners. The resulting analysis contained in this book, Ethical Considerations for Research Involving Prisoners, emphasizes five broad actions to provide prisoners involved in research with critically important protections: • expand the definition of "prisoner"; • ensure universally and consistently applied standards of protection; • shift from a category-based to a risk-benefit approach to research review; • update the ethical framework to include collaborative responsibility; and • enhance systematic oversight of research involving prisoners.

Comparing Prison Systems

Author : Nigel South,Robert P. Weiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 42,8 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.