Penal reform in Overcrowded times:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2001
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-276)
Contributors; Introduction: Penal Policies at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century; The Importance of Penal Policy; The Determinants of Penal Policy; The Transferability of Penal Policy; The Spread of Innovation; ONE: Penal Developments in America; The Punitiveness Story; The Sentencing Story; The Fragmentation Story; The United States; Early State Guidelines Systems; North Carolina; TWO: Penal Developments in Europe and Japan; Incarceration Rates across the World; Scandinavia; Germany; France; Netherlands; Switzerland; Japan
This volume brings together a collection of articles on penal reform in the United States, Europe, Japan, and other English-speaking countries. Unique and wide-ranging, the volume provides material on penal policy development and research and presents an international, comparative focus. Written by leading national and international authorities, it offers some of the broadest efforts to characterize recent penal trends and to analyze their causes and consequences
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 278 p.)
ISBN:1280481617
1423738578
1602564396
9781280481611
9781423738572
9781602564398

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