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Zusatztext 67664125 Informationen zum Autor John Pratt is Professor of Criminology, and James Cook Research Fellow in Social Science at the Institute of Criminology, at the Victoria University of Wellington. David Brown is Associate Professor in the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University, Australia. Mark Brown is a Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences, Melbourne University. His primary reserearch interests encompass penality, corrections, and colonial penal history. Simon Hallsworth is Director of the Universities Centre for Social Evaluation Research, and Principal Lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Science at London Metropolitan University. Wayne Morrison works within the Edexcel Foundation External Programme for Law, UK. Klappentext Throughout much the western world more and more people are being sent to prison! one of a number of changes inspired by a 'new punitiveness' in penal and political affairs. Zusammenfassung This book seeks to understand the increase in prisoners in the western world. It brings together leading authorities in the field to provide a wide-ranging analysis of new penal trends, compare the development of differing patterns of punishment across different types of societies, and to provide a range of theoretical analyses and commentaries to help understand their significance. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction Part 1: Punitive Trends 2. The great leap backward: imprisonment in America from Nixon to Clinton 3. Crime control in western countries, 1970 to 2000 4. Continuity, rupture or just more of the 'volatile and contradictory'?: glimpses of New South Wales' penal practice behind and through the discursive 5. Supermax meets death row: legal struggles around the new punitiveness in the USA 6. The liberal veil: revisiting Canadian penality 7. Contemporary statecraft and the 'punitive obsession': a critique of the new penology thesis Part 2: Globalisation, Technology and Surveillance 8. Globalisation and the new punitiveness 9. Engaging with punitive attitudes towards crime and punishment: some strategic lessons from England and Wales 10. The ad and the form: punitiveness and technological culture 11. Electronic monitoring, satellite tracking and the new punitiveness in England and Wales Part 3: Non-Punitive Societies 12. Levels of punitiveness in Scandinavia: description and explanation 13. Missing the punitive turn? Canadian criminal justice, 'balance' and penal modernism 14. When is a society non-punitive? The Italian case Part 4: Explanations 15. Modernity and the punitive 16. Elias, punishment and civilisation 17. Liberal exclusions and the new punitiveness 18. Rethinking narratives of penal change in global context ...
