The prison system and its effects
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The prison system and its effects
(Criminal justice, law enforcement and corrections series)
Nova Science, c2011
Rev. and enl. ed
- : softcover
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Novinka"
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-300) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
To an Antipodean, this book is at first a fascinating development of the New Zealand Prison System which includes the history of penology prior to the phenomenon coming to these shores. However, this book is not only a history: it is also an exploration of more complex managerial and social issues concerning crime and its treatment, including the interweaving of different penal policies that have brought us to where we are now. In this revised and enlarged edition, it draws on the reactions of many people imprisoned for reasons other than their criminality. By doing that it throws fresh light on the reactions of mankind in general to the loss of liberty. As a result, it raises psychological issues of isolation in all kinds of confinement, captivity, and deprivation that will appeal to everyone who is trying to grapple with the administrative, clinical, legal, and moral problems they create.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- The Aetiology of Present-Day Prisons & other Places of Captivity: From Banishment & Slavery to Brutality & Transportation: Britsh & American Creations: Russian, Nazi, Japanese & Chinese Places of Control
- The Mounting Consensus of Informed Opinion About the Need for Change
- Prison Overcrowding
- Conceptualizing the Prison as a Social System
- Assessing the General Effects of Long-Term Imprisonment
- Pathological Reactions to Imprisonment
- The Management of Captives
- The Development of Prisons in New Zealand
- Recent Official Inquiries Into the Prison System in New Zealand
- Overview & Conclusions
- Index.
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