Western European Penal Systems

A Critical Anatomy
1. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-0-8039-7721-1
Verlag: Sage Publications UK

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

This unique and original textbook offers undergraduates and interested professionals a much-needed description of how the penal system, including both prisons and alternatives to custody, is organized in eight major Western European countries.

Each chapter provides readers with a critical anatomy and empirical overview of the full range of penal sanctions used in each country and an analysis of how these sanctions are implemented. Using statistical data which are not widely available, contributors examine the nature of the penal population in relation to sentencing, to its class, gender and racial composition and to the nature of the offences for which individuals have been confined.

While highlighting several common trends in penal policy and strategy across Europe and seeking to assess to what extent these commonalities are being generated by the wider process of political integration, Western European Penal Systems also demonstrates that each of the eight countries has to an important extent its own culture of punishment which is constantly being reinterpreted and reworked.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ruggiero, Vincenzo

Ryan, Mick

Sim, Joe

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Punishment in Europe - Joe Sim, Vincenzo Ruggiero and Mick Ryan
Perceptions and Commonalities
The Dutch Prison System and Penal Policy in the 1990s - Ren[ac]e van Swaaningen and Gerard de Jonge
From Humanitarian Paternalism to Penal Business Management
Flexibility and Intermittent Emergency in the Italian Penal System - Vincenzo Ruggiero
The Penal System in France - Ermanno Gallo
From Correctionalism to Managerialism
The Penal System in England and Wales - Mick Ryan and Joe Sim
Round Up the Usual Suspects
Germany - Claudius Messner and Vincenzo Ruggiero
The Penal System between Past and Future
The Spanish Attempt to Build a Democratic Criminal Justice System - Roberto Bergalli
The Normalization of Swedish Prisons - Karen Leander
Imprisoned Ireland - Mike Tomlinson

Über Autor(innen)

Sim, Joe
Joe Sim is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He has written extensively about prisons, the state and punishment. He was a member of the Radical Alternatives to Prison Collective and is currently a Trustee of the charity INQUEST.