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Penal Systems: A Comparative Approach is a comprehensive and original introduction to the comparative study of punishment.
Analyzing twelve countries, authors Michael Cavadino and James Dignan offer an integrated and theoretically rigorous approach to comparative penology. They draw upon material provided by a team of eminent penologists to produce an important and highly readable contribution to scholarship in this area.
Early chapters introduce the reader to comparative penology, set out the theoretical framework and consider whether there is currently a ‘global penal crisis.’ Each country is then discussed in turn. Chapters on comparative youth justice and the privatization of prisons follow. Comparisons between countries are drawn within each chapter, giving the reader a synoptic and truly comparative vision of penality in different jurisdictions.
The United States of America: Law and Order Ideology, Hyperincarceration and Looming Crisis
The United States of America: Law and Order Ideology, Hyperincarceration and Looming Crisis
In some respects the USA is a paradigm case of penal crisis.1 Its prison and jail2 populations have rocketed skywards faster than that of almost any other country; it has significant problems with overcrowding and prison conditions and other signs of stretched penal resources; and the system lacks legitimacy for many both inside and outside its perimeters. However, as we shall see, the USA still does not fully fit a stereotyped image of a generalized penal crisis where every aspect of the penal system is in a dangerously critical state.
The USA currently leads the world in punishment in more ways ...
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