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Penal systems : a comparative approach / Michael Cavadino and James Dignan ; with Don Anspach ... [et al.].

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: London : SAGE, 2006Description: xv, 380 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0761952020
  • 9780761952022
  • 0761952039
  • 9780761952039
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.6 23 C 376
Contents:
Introducing comparative penology -- Globalized penal crisis? -- The United States of America : law and order ideology, hyperincarceration and looming crisis -- England and Wales : stop-go and the upwards zig-zag -- Australia and New Zealand : neo-liberal punitiveness down under -- South Africa : the transition from apartheid -- Germany : archetypal corporatism -- The Netherlands : a beacon of tolerance dimmed -- France and Italy : corporatism and Catholicism -- Sweden and Finland : nordic social democracy -- Japan : iron fist in a velvet penal glove -- Comparative youth justice -- Neo-liberal youth justice systems -- Youth justice systems : corporatist variants -- General patterns in youth justice? -- Prison privatization -- 'A boot stamping upon a human face forever'?
Summary: Using analysis of 12 countries, Michael Cavadino and James Dignan offer an international and integrated approach to comparative penology.
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Companion work to the main author's "The penal system".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing comparative penology -- Globalized penal crisis? -- The United States of America : law and order ideology, hyperincarceration and looming crisis -- England and Wales : stop-go and the upwards zig-zag -- Australia and New Zealand : neo-liberal punitiveness down under -- South Africa : the transition from apartheid -- Germany : archetypal corporatism -- The Netherlands : a beacon of tolerance dimmed -- France and Italy : corporatism and Catholicism -- Sweden and Finland : nordic social democracy -- Japan : iron fist in a velvet penal glove -- Comparative youth justice -- Neo-liberal youth justice systems -- Youth justice systems : corporatist variants -- General patterns in youth justice? -- Prison privatization -- 'A boot stamping upon a human face forever'?

Using analysis of 12 countries, Michael Cavadino and James Dignan offer an international and integrated approach to comparative penology.