Ioan Durnescu, "Understanding Penal Practice "
English | ISBN: 0415635810 | 2013 | 348 pages | AZW3 | 1519 KB
English | ISBN: 0415635810 | 2013 | 348 pages | AZW3 | 1519 KB
Criminological and penological scholarship has in recent years explored how and why institutions and systems of punishment change – and how and why these changes differ in different contexts. Important though these analyses are, this book focuses not so much on the changing nature of institutions and systems, but rather the changing nature of penal practice and practitioners
Bringing together leading researchers from around the world, this collection unites studies that aim to describe and critically analyse penal practice with studies that investigate its effectiveness and prescribe its future development. Reversing penology’s usual preoccupation with the prison, the book focuses mainly on penal practice in the community (i.e. on probation, parole, offender supervision and ‘community corrections’).
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