| Description |
xxx, 524 pages : illustrations ; 25cm |
| Series |
The International library of criminology, criminal justice, and penology |
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International library of criminology, criminal justice & penology.
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| Contents |
1. Two laws of penal evolution / Emile Durkheim -- 2. The psychology of punitive justice / George Herbert Mead -- 3. Labor market and penal sanction: thoughts on the sociology of criminal justice / George Rusche -- 4. The decreasing prison population of England-1934 / Edwin H. Sutherland -- 5. Hypotheses in the sociology of punishment / Donald R. Cressey -- 6. Changes in penal values / Nils Christie -- 7. Power concentration, legitimation crisis and penal severity: a comparative perspective / Martin Killias -- 8. A comparison of prison use in England, Canada, West Germany, and the United States : a limited test of the punitive hypothesis / James P. Lynch -- 9. Cross-national comarisons of imprisonment / Warren Young and Mark Brown -- 10. Knowledge, domination, and criminal punishment / Joachim J. Savelsberg -- 11. Cross-national imprisonment rates: limitations of method and possible conclusions / Ken Pease -- 12. The dynamics of a homostatic punishment process / Albert Blumstein, Jacqueline Cohen and Daniel Nagin -- 13. the dynamics of oscillatory punishment processes / David F. Greenberg -- 14. Labor market and imprisonment / Ivan Jankovic -- 15. A test of the stability of punishment hypothesis: the case of California, 1851-1970 / Richard A. Berk ...[et al.] -- 16. Economic crisis and the rising prisoner population in England and Wales / Steven Box and Chris Hale -- 17. Labor surplus and punishment: a review and assessment of theory and evidence Theodore G. Chisicos and Miriam A. DeLone -- 18. Gender, prison, and prison history / Nicole Hahn Rafter -- 19. Humanitarianism, labour exploitation, or social control? a critical survey of theory and research on the origin and development of prisoons / Robert P. Weiss -- 20. Frameworks of inquiry in the sociology of punishment / David Garland -- 21. The new penology: notes on the emerging strategy of correctons and its implications / Malcolm M. Feeley and Jonathan Simon -- 22. Gazett of morality and social whip: punishment, hegemony and the case of the USA, 1970-92 / Dario Melossi -- 23. the new penology and politics in crisis: the Italian case / Massimo Pavarini |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Punishment -- Social aspects.
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Punishment -- Sociology
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Punishment.
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| Author |
Melossi, Dario, 1948-
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| LC no. |
97030505 |
| ISBN |
1855217996 (hardcover) |
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