TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cavadino,Michael
AU  - Dignan,James
AU  - Cavadino,Michael
TI  - Penal systems: a comparative approach 
SN  - 0761952020
U1  - 364.6 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - London
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Corrections
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Imprisonment
N1  - 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'?
N2  - Using analysis of 12 countries, Michael Cavadino and James Dignan offer an international and integrated approach to comparative penology
ER  -