The penal system : an introduction / Michael Cavadino and James Dignan.
Material type: TextPublication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2007.Edition: 4th edDescription: vii, 474 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781412929462
- 9781412929479
- 365/.942 22
- HV9647 .C38 2007
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Book | National Defence College (NDC) Library | HV9647 .C38 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 8997/12 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [414]-456) and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1 Crisis? What Crisis? -- 2 Justifying Punishment -- 3 Explaining Punishment -- 4 Court Decisions: the Crux of the Crisis -- 5 Community Penalties and the Future of Punishment -- 6 Prisons and the Penal Crisis -- 7 Prison Privatization: Panacea or Pandora's Box? -- 8 Early Release: the Penal System's Safety Valve -- 9 Young Offenders: Systems Management or System Disaster? -- 10 Bias in the Criminal Justice System -- 11 Solving the Crisis? -- A Self-Study Guide to Electronic Sources Available on the -- Internet.
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