Crime, Punishment, and Politics in Comparative Perspective
Author: Michael H. Tonry
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 698
ISBN-13:
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Comparative Capital Punishment
Author: Carol S. Steiker
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published:
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 1786433257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComparative Capital Punishment offers a set of in-depth, critical and comparative contributions addressing death practices around the world. Despite the dramatic decline of the death penalty in the last half of the twentieth century, capital punishment remains in force in a substantial number of countries around the globe. This research handbook explores both the forces behind the stunning recent rejection of the death penalty, as well as the changing shape of capital practices where it is retained. The expert contributors address the social, political, economic, and cultural influences on both retention and abolition of the death penalty and consider the distinctive possibilities and pathways to worldwide abolition.
Punishment
Author: Terance D. Miethe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780521844079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 2005 book examines punishment in different forms, including corporal and economic punishment.
The Police, State, and Society
Author: René Lévy
Publisher: Pearson Education India
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9788131731451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevised version of papers presented at a conference held at New Delhi during 9-11 February 2004.
Sentencing Reform in Overcrowded Times
Author: Michael Tonry
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997-04-24
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0195344456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSentencing and corrections issues are much the same in every Western nation. Increasingly, countries are importing policies and practices that have succeeded elsewhere. In that spirit, this volume brings together articles on sentencing reform in the United States, other English-speaking countries, and Western Europe, all written by leading national and international authorities on sentencing and punishment policy, practices, and institutions. Timely and readable, many of these essays provide brief yet detailed sentencing policy histories for countries and states. Others offer concise overviews of research on racial disparities, public opinion, and evaluation of the effects of new policies. Together, they illustrate the radical, precipitate, and hyperpoliticized nature of American sentencing reform in the last twenty-five years. Sentencing Reform in Overcrowded Times: A Comparative Perspective fills a major gap in the academic and policy literatures on this subject, and will be essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners.
Comparative Criminal Justice
Author: Francis Pakes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-08-16
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1135982368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers an accessible introduction to comparative criminal justice and examines and reflects on the ways different countries and jurisdictions deal with the main stages in the criminal justice process, from policing to sentencing. This popular bestseller has been fully updated and expanded for the third edition. This textbook provides the reader with: a comparative perspective on criminal justice and its main components; a knowledge of methodology for comparative research and analysis; an understanding of the emerging concepts in comparative criminal justice, such as security, surveillance, retribution and rehabilitation; a discussion of global trends such as the global drop in crime, the punitive turn, penal populism, privatization, international policing and international criminal tribunals. The new edition has been fully updated to keep abreast with this growing field of study and research, including increased coverage of the challenge of globalization and its role and influence on criminal justice systems around the world. Topics such as state crime, genocide and the international criminal court have also grown in prominence since the publication of the last edition and are given increased coverage. This book will be perfect reading for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in comparative criminal justice and those who are engaged in the study of global responses to crime. New features such as lists of further reading, study questions and boxed case studies help bring comparative criminal justice alive for students and instructors alike.
The Politics of Punishment
Author: Louise Brangan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781003022398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrisons are everywhere. Yet they are not everywhere alike. How can we explain the differences in cross-national uses of incarceration? The Politics of Punishment explores this question by undertaking a comparative sociological analysis of penal politics and imprisonment in Ireland and Scotland. Using archives and oral history, this book shows that divergences in the uses of imprisonment result from the distinctive features of a nation's political culture: the different political ideas, cultural values and social anxieties that shape prison policymaking. Political culture thus connects large-scale social phenomena to actual carceral outcomes, illuminating the forces that support and perpetuate cross-national penal differences. The work therefore offers a new framework for the comparative study of penality. This is also an important work of sociology and history. By closely tracking how and why the politics of punishment evolved and adapted over time, we also yield rich and compelling new accounts of both Irish and Scottish penal cultures from 1970 to the 1990s. The Politics of Punishment will be essential reading for students and academics interested in the sociology of punishment, comparative penology, criminology, penal policymaking, law and social history.
American Exceptionalism in Crime and Punishment
Author: Kevin R. Reitz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 0190203544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction -- American exceptionalism : perspectives -- American exceptionalism in crime, punishment, and disadvantage : race, federalization, and politicization in the perspective of local autonomy / Nicola Lacey and David Soskice -- The concept of American exceptionalism and the case of capital punishment / David Garland -- Penal optimism : understanding American mass imprisonment from a Canadian perspective / Cheryl Marie Webster and Anthony N. Doob -- The complications of penal federalism : American exceptionalism or fifty different countries? / Franklin E. Zimring -- American exceptionalism in crime -- American exceptionalism in comparative perspective : explaining trends and variation in the use of incarceration / Tapio Lappi-Seppälä -- How exceptional is the history of violence and criminal justice in the United States? : variation across time and space as the keys to understanding homicide and punitiveness / Randolph Roth -- Making the state pay : violence and the politicization of crime in comparative perspective / Lisa L. Miller -- Comparing serious violent crime in the United States and England and Wales : why it matters, and how it can be done / Zelia Gallo, Nicola Lacey, and David Soskice -- American exceptionalism in community supervision : a comparative analysis of probation in the United States, Scotland, and Sweden / Edward E. Rhine and Faye S. Taxman -- American exceptionalism in parole release and supervision : a European perspective / Dirk van Zyl Smit and Alessandro Corda -- Collateral sanctions and American exceptionalism : a comparative perspective / Nora V. Demleitner -- Index
The Politics of Injustice
Author: Katherine Beckett
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780761929949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the US crime problem and the resulting policies as a political and cultural issue.
Comparative Criminal Justice
Author: David Nelken
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2010-05-05
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1847879373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe increasingly important topic of comparative criminal justice is examined from an original and insightful perspective by one of the top scholars in the field. Addressing the need for a globalized criminology, David Nelken looks at why we should study crime and criminal justice in a comparative and international context, and the difficulties we encounter when we do. Evaluating 'global' trends in crime, risk and security, the book draws upon the author’s experience of working in a number of settings around the world. A range of case studies are included to illustrate the discussion, covering areas such as white collar crime, juvenile delinquency, and organized crime.
