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ISBN: 9780195104295 - Punishment, Communication, and Community Punishment, Communication, and Community
A, DUFF R

ISBN10: 9780198026433  ISBN13: 9780198026433
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Part of the Studies in Crime and Public Policy series, this book, written by one of the top philosophers of punishment, examines the main trends in penal theorizing over the past three decades. Duff asks what can justify criminal punishment... More

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ISBN: 9780195182408 - Death by Design Capital Punishment As a Social Psychological System Death by Design Capital Punishment As a Social Psychological System
CRAIG, HANEY

ISBN10: 9780198040224  ISBN13: 9780198040224
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
It is nearly impossible to carry out open, honest discussion of the death penalty because of the clouded discourses that are used to describe it. In this book, Craig Haney presents empirical data collected in over 25 years of research to draw... More

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ISBN: 9780203160183 - State of the Prisons - 200 Years On State of the Prisons - 200 Years On
Whitfield, Richard

ISBN10: 9780203160183  ISBN13: 9780203160183
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
In 1777 John Howard wrote The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons. Two centuries later, this extraordinary document commemorates his achievements in campaigning for reform. More

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ISBN: 9780415079563 - Prisons After Woolf Prisons After Woolf
Jenkins, Michael; Player, Elaine

ISBN10: 9780203160916  ISBN13: 9780203160916
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
For the past few years prisons have attracted much media attention, due to substantial increases in the prison population and the deteriorating conditions in which prisoners are held. In addition, there has been industrial action by prison... More

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ISBN: 9780521806459 - What Works in Corrections What Works in Corrections
MacKenzie, Doris Layton

ISBN10: 9780511166471  ISBN13: 9780511166471
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Electronic Book
What Works in Corrections examines the impact of correctional interventions, management policies, treatment and rehabilitation programs on the recidivism of offenders and delinquents. The book reviews different strategies for reducing recidivism... More

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ISBN: 9780199730148 - Oxford Handbook of Sentencing and Corrections Oxford Handbook of Sentencing and Corrections
Reitz, Joan Petersilia; Kevin R

ISBN10: 9780199908912  ISBN13: 9780199908912
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Electronic Book

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ISBN: 9780195178203 - Contradictions of American Capital Punishment Contradictions of American Capital Punishment
E, ZIMRING FRANKLIN

ISBN10: 9780198034797  ISBN13: 9780198034797
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book

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ISBN: 9780195182606 - Harsh Justice Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide between America and Europe Harsh Justice Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide between America and Europe
Q, WHITMAN JAMES

ISBN10: 9780198035312  ISBN13: 9780198035312
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Paperback edition of cloth edition originally published in September 2003. Criminal punishment in America is harsh and degrading - more so than anywhere else in the liberal west. Executions and long prision terms are commonplace in America. More

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ISBN: 9780415051903 - Punish and Critique Punish and Critique
Howe, Adrian

ISBN10: 9780203995518  ISBN13: 9780203995518
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Political economies of punishment 2. 'New histories of punishment regimes 3. The Foucault Effect: from penology to penality 4. Feminist analytical approaches to women's imprisonment 5. Postmodern feminism and the... More

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ISBN: 9780415062817 - Secure Accommodation in Child Care Secure Accommodation in Child Care
Harris, Robert; Timms, Professor Noel W; Timms, Noel

ISBN10: 9780203209288  ISBN13: 9780203209288
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
For some children secure accommodation seems to be the only way to control their disparate number of "e;problems"e;. But why is this so, and from what criteria do social work professionals decide that a child should be put into secure... More