Creating Criminals : Prisons and People in a Market Society.


Vivien. Stern
Bok Engelsk 2006 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
London : : Zed Books Ltd, , 2006.
Omfang
1 online resource (225 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Table of Contents; Tables; Foreword and Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Behind the Bars: the Injustice of Prison; 2 Crime and Its Definition:How Just Is Criminal Justice?; 3 Crime – a Good Business? The Impact of the Free Market; 4 The 'War on Drugs'and Migration; 5 'In the Name of Justice': Is There a Better Way?; 6 Criminal Justice and Social Justice; Selected Further Reading; Index;. - Market society is producing more crime around the world. More acts are being defined as crimes. Ever increasing numbers of people are classified as criminals and more are being locked up in prison. With globalization, the crime and punishment problem is no longer insulated from pressures beyond national borders. The rich may retreat behind their expensive security into gated communities, but the poor are more and more at the mercy of criminals and corrupt policing. Yet, Vivien Stern argues, the trends towards more criminalization and more imprisonment are not making for more effective crime co
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Crime prevention
Criminal justice, Administration of
Imprisonment
Social justice
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Dewey
364.01 . - 364
ISBN
1842775383. - 1842775391. - 9781842775387. - 9781842775394

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