Mathieu Deflem, Editor
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Published as Volume 19 of Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance.
Emerald Group Publishing (Bingley, UK), October 2014.
ISBN-10: 1783509104 | ISBN-13: 978-1783509102
SYNOPSIS
This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance deals with aspects of punishment, especially concerning incarceration and prison conditions, in a variety of countries. The book brings together scholars to contribute their respective chapters, each of the authors drawn from various parts of the world, thus ensuring a global perspective on the basis of the authors’ unique specialties and national settings. The countries whose prison and punishment conditions are analyzed specifically include Italy, Turkey, England and Wales, Belgium, Canada, Mexico, the United States of America, South Africa, Japan, and Hong Kong. Both thematically and regionally diverse within the province of social and behavioral studies devoted to the study of punishment and incarceration, the chapters in this volume also demonstrate the value of multiple theoretical approaches and methodological orientations in uncovering the realities of punishment and imprisonment across the world.
This volume is published in the series, Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: THE PRISON WORLD [online]
Mathieu Deflem
LEGITIMACY AND PUNITIVENESS: THE ROLE OF JUDICIAL ACTORS IN ITALIAN PENALITY
Zelia Gallo
JUVENILE JUSTICE AND INCARCERATION IN TURKEY
Serkan Tasgin
THE TRAJECTORY OF PENAL MARKETS IN A PERIOD OF AUSTERITY: THE CASE OF ENGLAND AND WALES
Mary S. Corcoran
‘CECI N’EST PAS UNE FOUILLE À CORPS’: THE DENIAL OF STRIP SEARCHES IN BELGIAN PRISONS
Tom Daems
STUCK: CONDITIONS OF CANADIAN CONFINEMENT
Rose Ricciardelli, Hayley Crichton, and Lisa Adams
WOMEN PRISONERS: THEORY AND REALITY IN MEXICO
Elena Azaola
THREE WAVES OF AMERICAN PRISON DEVELOPMENT, 1790–1920
Ashley T. Rubin
NATIVE AMERICAN INCARCERATION: A NEGLECTED PROBLEM?
Roy F. Janisch
CONTINUED IMPRISONMENT OF TERMINALLY ILL PRISONERS IN THE UNITED STATES: AN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE
Aleksandr Khechumyan
SENTENCING AND INCARCERATION IN A DEMOCRATIC SOUTH AFRICA
Willem F.M. Luyt
PUNISHMENT AND INCARCERATION IN JAPAN: A NET-WIDENING OF CRIME CONTROL AND A NEW PRIORITY SYSTEM OF PROSECUTION
Shinichi Ishizuka
GENDER AND IMPRISONMENT IN HONG KONG
Maggy Lee and K. Joe Laidler
AVAILABILITY
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Also available online in the Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance series (subscription).
