Penal systems : a comparative approach /
Cavadino, Michael, 1953-
Penal systems : a comparative approach / Michael Cavadino and James Dignan ; with Don Anspach ... [et al.]. - xv, 380 pages ; 24 cm.
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.
0761952020 9780761952022 0761952039 9780761952039
Corrections--Cross-cultural studies.
Imprisonment--Cross-cultural studies.
364.6 / C 376
Penal systems : a comparative approach / Michael Cavadino and James Dignan ; with Don Anspach ... [et al.]. - xv, 380 pages ; 24 cm.
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.
0761952020 9780761952022 0761952039 9780761952039
Corrections--Cross-cultural studies.
Imprisonment--Cross-cultural studies.
364.6 / C 376