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- Author: Joe Sim
- Publisher: Sage Publications
- Year: 2009
- Pages: 200
- ISBN: 9780857029539
- ISBN-10: 0857029533
- ISBN-13: 9780857029539
- Format: PDF
- Language: English
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Joe Sim traces the development of penal strategy over the past three decades, through a critical analysis of the relationship between penal policy and state power. Exploring the contested histories of punishment that are prominent in criminology, and its development in penal policy, the book analyzes four key dimensions of modern penal trends continuity and discontinuity in penal policy and practice, reform and rehabilitation, contesting penal power, and abolitionism. Articulate, innovative, and theoretically informed, Punishment and Prisons offers a critical overview of contemporary penal politics that will prove a compelling addition to the criminological library.
- Author: Joe Sim
- Publisher: Sage Publications
- Year: 2009
- Pages: 200
- ISBN: 9780857029539
- ISBN-10: 0857029533
- ISBN-13: 9780857029539
- Format: PDF
- Language: English English
Joe Sim traces the development of penal strategy over the past three decades, through a critical analysis of the relationship between penal policy and state power. Exploring the contested histories of punishment that are prominent in criminology, and its development in penal policy, the book analyzes four key dimensions of modern penal trends continuity and discontinuity in penal policy and practice, reform and rehabilitation, contesting penal power, and abolitionism. Articulate, innovative, and theoretically informed, Punishment and Prisons offers a critical overview of contemporary penal politics that will prove a compelling addition to the criminological library.
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