Punishment in Europe : a critical anatomy of penal systems

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Punishment in Europe : a critical anatomy of penal systems

Title remainder

a critical anatomy of penal systems

Statement of responsibility

edited by Vincenzo Ruggiero, Professor of Sociology, University of Middlesex and Mick Ryan, Emeritus Professor, Law and Criminology, University of Greenwich

Creator

• Ruggiero, Vincenzo

Contributor

• Ryan, Mick

Editor

• Ruggiero, Vincenzo
• Ryan, Mick

Subject

• Punishment -- Europe
• Corrections -- Europe

Language

eng

Summary

This collection brings together leading international scholars and practitioners to provide a critical guide to penal systems across Europe. Each chapter forms a case study outlining the main contours of each national penal system, identifying and interpreting the combination of forces driving penal practice in that country. Through its exploration of twelve different Western and Eastern European countries, this collection identifies the national particularities, but also the commonalities and cross talk between penal systems, such as the overuse of imprisonment and the harsher sanctions against the poor when breaking the law. The book challenges this bias with a call for a more critical, public criminology, raising fundamental questions about how we justify and deliver punishment in Europe. Includes contributions from Iñaki Rivera Beiras, Emma Bell, Miranda Boone, Bernd Dollinger, Patrizio Gonnella, Philip Gounev, Hanns von Hofer, Vassilis Karydis, Nikolaos K. Koulouris, Andrea Kretschmann, Mónica Aranda Ocaña, Laura Piacentini, Monika Platek, Philippe Robert, Mary Rogan, Rene; van Swaaningen and Enrik Tham.--

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• Palgrave studies in prisons and penology

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Provided by publisher

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DLC

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illustrations

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Palgrave studies in prisons and penology