Creating criminals : prisons and people in a market society
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Creating criminals : prisons and people in a market society
（Global issues）
Fernwood , Books for Change , SIRD , Zed, 2006
- : Zed, hbk
- : Zed, pbk
Available at 5 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 control or safer communities.
This important book demonstrates that the prospects for the future are serious unless NGOs and reformers join in a new movement for reform that gives more control of justice policy back to communities and neighbourhoods.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
1. Behind the bars - the injustice of the 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
Useful websites
Index
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