Prison systems: a comparative study of accountability in England, France, Germany, and The Netherlands

This completely new study, based upon extensive research carried out in four leading EC member states - the UK, France, Germany, and The Netherlands - helps to answer three related questions. First, how similar or different are European prison systems in practice? Secondly, are these similarities an...

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Main Author: Vagg, Jon (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford [u.a.] Clarendon Press 1994
Series:Clarendon studies in criminology
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Summary:This completely new study, based upon extensive research carried out in four leading EC member states - the UK, France, Germany, and The Netherlands - helps to answer three related questions. First, how similar or different are European prison systems in practice? Secondly, are these similarities and differences explicable in terms of different doctrines of prison accountability? Thirdly, is it really possible to change the nature of prisons by changing the structures through which they account for their performance?
Physical Description:XI, 380 S.
ISBN:0198256744

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