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Zusatztext Overall, this book is worth reading by all criminologists for the important questions it raises about the way we approach our work. Informationen zum Autor Tom Daems is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Criminal Law and the Leuven Institute of Criminology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is co-editor of Institutionalizing Restorative Justice (Willan Publishing 2006) and is Editor-in-Chief of FATIK: Tijdschrift voor Strafbeleid & Gevangeniswezen, a journal on penal policy and prisons, published by the Flemish League of Human Rights. Klappentext This book reviews the literature on contemporary punishment and examines the approaches of four leading scholars to questions of penal change, analysing the relationship between their roles as scholars in an academic environment and as citizens in a political community. Zusammenfassung This book reviews the literature on contemporary punishment and examines the approaches of four leading scholars to questions of penal change, analysing the relationship between their roles as scholars in an academic environment and as citizens in a political community. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Making Sense of Penal Change 2: Punishment in a Culture of Control - David Garland 3: The Decivilization of Punishment - John Pratt 4: Punishment and the Fragmentation of Morality - Hans Boutellier 5: Punishment and the Rise of the Penal State - Loic Wacquant 6: Persuasive Criminology
