基本説明
Using analysis of 12 different countries (the USA, England/Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Sweden, Finland and Japan).
Full Description
'Cavadino and Dignan's Penal Systems: A Comparative Approach looks across national boundaries to see how penal systems differ and why. It is hands-down the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the subject and should become a staple textbook for use in law and social science courses on comparative penal policy and practice' - Michael H. Tonry,
University of Minnesota
'This book is an important addition to the literature on punishment. It is a highly readable and very well researched overview of some of the major differences in punitiveness between neo-liberal, corporatist and social democratic countries... This is a major contribution to comparative penology by two of the leading authors in this field' - Alison Liebling, Director of the Prisons Research Centre, UK
'A major and seminal work' - David Downes, Professor Emeritus at the London School of Economics
Penal Systems: A Comparative Approach is a comprehensive and original introduction to the comparative study of punishment.
Analysing twelve countries, Cavadino and 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.
Contents
Foreword - David Downes
PART ONE: ABOUT COMPARATIVE PENOLOGY
Introducing Comparative Penology
PENAL SYSTEMS IN CRISIS?
Globalized Penal Crisis?
The United States of America
Law and Order Ideology, Hyperincarceration and Looming Crisis
England and Wales
Stop-Go and the Upwards Zig-Zag
Australia and New Zealand
Neo-Liberal Punitiveness Down Under
South Africa
The Transition From Apartheid
Germany
Archetypal Corporatism
The Netherlands
A Beacon of Tolerance Dimmed
France and Italy
Corporatism and Catholicism
Sweden and Finland
Nordic Social Democracy
Japan
Iron Fist in a Velvet Penal Glove
PART TWO: PATTERNS OF PENALITY
Comparative Youth Justice
Neo-Liberal Youth Justice Systems
Youth Justice Systems: Corporatist Variants
General Patterns in Youth Justice?
Prison Privatization
PART THREE: IN CONCLUSION
'A Boot Stamping on a Human Face Forever?'
