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Western European penal systems : a critical anatomy / edited by Vincenzo Ruggiero, Mick Ryan, and Joe Sim.
LIBRA HV9636.5 .W47 1995
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corrections--Europe, Western.
- Corrections.
- Correctional institutions--Europe, Western.
- Correctional institutions.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Europe, Western.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Western Europe.
- Physical Description:
- x, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 1995.
- Summary:
- Every undergraduate course in sociology focuses on Marx, Durkheim and Weber, yet students often find their first contact with these writers to be a difficult experience: the language of these theorists is complicated and forbidding. This book provides a clear guide to their key ideas.
- Ken Morrison provides a lucid and reliable guide to their key ideas, not only explaining their meaning but also locating them in their philosophical and historical context. The student therefore gains an immediate understanding of both the roots and contemporary relevance of the concepts and how they relate to the classical tradition.
- The book also includes a helpful alphabetical concept glossary. This is organized in three s
- Contents:
- Punishment in Europe : perceptions and commonalities / Joe Sims, Vincenzo Ruggiero, and Mick Ryan
- The Dutch prison system and penal policy in the 1990s : from humanitarian paternalism to penal business management / René van Swaaningen and Gerard de Jonge
- Flexibility and intermittent emergency in the Italian penal system / Vincenzo Ruggiero
- The penal system in France : from correctionalism to mangerialism / Ermanno Gallo
- The penal system in England and Wales : round up the usual suspects / Mick Ryan and Joe Sim
- Germany : the penal system between past and future / Claudius Messner and Vincenzo Ruggiero
- The Spanish attempt to build a democratic criminal justice system / Roberto Bergalli
- The normalization of Swedish prisons / Karen Leander
- Imprisoned Ireland / Mike Tomlinson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0803975627
- 0803975635
- 0803977204
- OCLC:
- 34699312
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