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This book gathers the very best academic research to date on prison
regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean. Grounded in solid
ethnographic work, each chapter explores the informal dynamics of
prisons in diverse territories and countries of the region -
Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia, Puerto
Rico, Dominican Republic - while theorizing how day-to-day life for
the incarcerated has been forged in tandem between prison
facilities and the outside world. The editors and contributors to
this volume ask: how have fastest-rising incarceration rates in the
world affected civilians' lives in different national contexts? How
do groups of prisoners form broader and more integrated 'carceral
communities' across day-to-day relations of exchange and
reciprocity with guards, lawyers, family, associates, and assorted
neighbors? What differences exist between carceral communities from
one national context to another? Last but not least, how do
carceral communities, contrary to popular opinion, necessarily
become a productive force for the good and welfare of incarcerated
subjects, in addition to being a potential source of troubling
violence and insecurity? This edited collection represents the most
rigorous scholarship to date on the prison regimes of Latin America
and the Caribbean, exploring the methodological value of
ethnographic reflexivity inside prisons and theorizing how daily
life for the incarcerated challenges preconceptions of prisoner
subjectivity, so-called prison gangs, and bio-political order.
Sacha Darke is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at University of
Westminster, UK, Visiting Lecturer in Law at University of Sao
Paulo, Brazil, and Affiliate of King's Brazil Institute, King's
College London, UK. Chris Garces is Research Professor of
Anthropology at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, and
Visiting Lecturer in Law at Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar,
Ecuador. Luis Duno-Gottberg is Professor at Rice University, USA.
He specializes in Caribbean culture, with emphasis on race and
ethnicity, politics, violence, and visual culture. Andres Antillano
is Professor in Criminology at Universidad Central de Venezuela,
Venezuala.
Victim or villain?She's out of prison... Lauren Miller has served
six years behind bars for a crime she did not commit. Now, with her
life in tatters, she is determined to bring those who framed her to
justice. Out for revenge...Journalist Nate Black is intrigued by
Lauren's story. Is she the innocent victim she claims to be or is
there more to her past? Eager to learn more he offers to help
Lauren clear her name and bring the real villains to justice. And
running out of time.But with millions of pounds still missing,
Lauren remains the prime suspect...and the main target in an
increasingly deadly game. And as Lauren's plan with Nate reaches
its shocking climax, no one knows who will ultimately take the
fall... A nail-biting revenge thriller, perfect for fans of Gemma
Rogers, Heather Atkinson and Caro Savage. 'A brilliant read that
hooked me from the outset. The Fall is a tale of sweet revenge that
I couldn't tear myself away from!' Bestselling author Gemma Rogers.
This book discusses environmental crime and individual wrongdoing.
It uses the theory of convenience throughout to examine financial
motives, attractive opportunities, and personal willingness to
explain deviant behavior. This book focusses primarily on the case
study of the Island of Tjome in Norway, an attractive resort where
building permits were repeatedly granted to rich people in a
protected zone along the shoreline. This book investigates how
these crimes were detected and investigated by police over a few
years with the help of whistleblowers. It discusses the interplay
between the potentially corrupt public officials, professionals
like architects and attorneys, and rich individuals, as an
interesting and challenging arena for law enforcement. It covers
attorneys' defense strategies, evaluates private internal policing,
and provides insights for those investigating individuals involved
in environmental crime. It also examines the Vest Tank toxic waste
dumping case and the resulting explosion where unusually both the
chairperson and the chief executive were successfully sentenced to
prison because of environmental crime, unlike many other
environmental crime cases where individuals avoid prison. The case
studies are drawn from Norway to supplement more well-known case
studies from the USA.
This volume on penitentiary systems in the Americas offers a
long-overdue look at the prisons that exist at the forefront of the
ongoing struggle against drugs and violence throughout North,
Central, and South America and the Caribbean. From Haiti to
Bolivia, the authors examine the conditions in these systems, and
allow several common themes to emerge, including the alarming
prevalence of lengthy pre-trial detention and the often abysmal
living conditions in these institutions. Taken together, this
comprises the first comparative overview of the use and abuse of
prisons in the Americas.
After decades of the American "war on drugs" and relentless prison
expansion, political officials are finally challenging mass
incarceration. Many point to an apparently promising solution to
reduce the prison population: addiction treatment. In Addicted to
Rehab, Bard College sociologist Allison McKim gives an in-depth and
innovative ethnographic account of two such rehab programs for
women, one located in the criminal justice system and one located
in the private healthcare system-two very different ways of
defining and treating addiction. McKim's book shows how addiction
rehab reflects the race, class, and gender politics of the punitive
turn. As a result, addiction has become a racialized category that
has reorganized the link between punishment and welfare provision.
While reformers hope that treatment will offer an alternative to
punishment and help women, McKim argues that the framework of
addiction further stigmatizes criminalized women and undermines our
capacity to challenge gendered subordination. Her study ultimately
reveals a two-tiered system, bifurcated by race and class.
A comprehensive overview of American penology covering practices,
historical precedents, ideologies, changing attitudes, system
descriptions, and trends in prison management, as well as
noteworthy penal literature. The entries are alphabetically
arranged in a concise dictionary format and are cross-referenced to
clarify the more technical penal terminology. There is a brief
description of each state prison system and major components of the
federal system are discussed. Entries include administrative
structure, components of the adult and juvenile inmate populations
in their respective institutions, and operating budgets for an
indication of current costs and capital expenditure budgets for
furture expansion costs to corrections systems. The dictionary
provides an overview of a broad variety of topics in American
penology. Each entry is followed by complete references and cross
references to clarify technical terminology of penology. The
entries give essential information about the administrative
structure, adult and adolescent population in respective
institutions, and both operating budgets for current costs and
capital budgets for future expansion for interstate comparison.
Other entries include program description, ideology, techniques,
and a historical perspective of American prisons.
This book provides a focused and comprehensive overview of criminal
psychology in different socio-economic and psycho-sociological
contexts. It informs readers on the role of psychology in the
various aspects of the criminal justice process, starting from the
investigation of a crime to the rehabilitation or reintegration of
the offender. Current research in criminology and psychology has
been discussed to understand the minds of various offenders, how to
interact with them during investigation and conviction effectively
and how to bring about positive changes in various stages of the
criminal justice process-investigation, prosecution, incarceration,
rehabilitation-to increase the efficacy of the correctional system
and improve public confidence in the justice system. It thoroughly
addresses the bigger issues of holistically reducing the increase
in crime rates and susceptibility in society. Each chapter builds
on leading scholarship in this field from Western scholars and
supplements these theories with research findings from a South
Asian perspective, particularly in the Indian criminal justice
system. This book successfully encapsulates the foundations of
criminal psychology literature while incorporating
interdisciplinary avenues of study into criminal behaviour and
legal psychology, bringing into the provincial discourse lacunas of
the justice system and avenues for alternative correctional and
rehabilitative programs.
This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive documentary history
of children whose parents were identified as enemies of the Soviet
regime from its inception through Joseph Stalin's death. When
parents were arrested, executed, or sent to the Gulag, their
children also suffered. Millions of children, labeled "socially
dangerous," lost parents, homes, and siblings. Co-edited by Cathy
A. Frierson, a senior American scholar, and Semyon S. Vilensky,
Gulag survivor and compiler of the Russian documents, the book
offers documentary and personal perspectives. The editors present
top-secret documents in translation from the Russian state
archives, memoirs, and interviews with child survivors. The
editors' narrative reveals how such prolonged child victimization
could occur, who knew about it, and who tried to intervene on the
children's behalf. The editors show how the emotions from childhood
trauma persist into the twenty-first century, passing from victims
to their children and grandchildren. Interviews with child
survivors also display their resilient ability to fashion
productive lives despite family destruction and stigma.
Typical offender risk factors include a history of antisocial
behavior, an antisocial personality, antisocial cognition,
antisocial associates, family and/or marital problems, school or
work problems, leisure or recreation problems, and substance abuse.
Though there are roughly 66 risk assessment instruments that
measure these factors, only 19 of them are in wide use. Of these
tools, micro-level and personal factors are included on typical
risk instruments while external or macro-level matters are not.
Community Risk and Protective Factors for Probation and Parole Risk
Assessment Tools: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an
essential research publication that explores tools for predicting
recidivism rates among incarcerated individuals. The study provides
evidence for an alternative explanation for a still prevailing
notion that recidivism is primarily a result of personal/internal
failings (such as mental illness or cognitive impairment) versus
external/societal ones. Featuring a wide range of topics such as
affordable housing, policy reform, and adult education, this book
is ideal for criminologists, sociologists, law enforcement,
corrections officers, wardens, therapists, rehabilitation
counselors, researchers, policymakers, criminal justice
professionals, academicians, and students.
Russell tests the U.S. Supreme Court's assumption that the
procedure used to select jurors who impose the death penalty does
not inject racial bias into the jury. In Georgia, those who
supported the death penalty and were placed on juries were more
likely to sentence black defendants to death. Further, those who
supported the death penalty tend to hold attitudes that are linked
to racial bias and act as surrogate measures for racial bias. He
also finds no support in his analysis for the results of other
research that indicate that death penalty jurors are conviction
prone. Although earlier empirical evidence has suggested a
consistent pattern of race-related differential sentencing,
Russell's study is the first to demonstrate that the death
qualification tends to eliminate moderate attitudes and concentrate
racial bias in death penalty juries. "The Death Penalty and Racial
Bias" suggests a clear direction for future policy research into
the neutrality of death-qualified juries.
This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an
international exploration of incarceration and generation, cover a
range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of
incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects. Volume
I explores an array of experiences, dynamics, cultures,
interventions and impacts of incarceration in specific generations:
childhood, youth and emerging adulthood, adulthood and older age.
It covers topics such as: the expansion of the penal landscape;
deprivation of liberty regarding children, the problem of
unaccompanied migrant children; the incarceration of young adults
and adults, exploring its impacts within and beyond incarceration
and the consequences of imprisoning older populations. Volume II
examines intergenerational relations issues within different
contexts of incarceration. This collection discusses public
policies and the role of the state and the citizen deprived of
liberty. It speaks to academics in criminology, sociology,
psychology, and law, and to practitioners and policymakers
interested in incarceration.
"If you do the crime you gotta do the time." This adage reflects
the overall attitude most Americans have about crime and the
criminal justice system. Implicit in this adage is the notion that
once "the time" is done, the individual is free to re-enter society
and resume a normal life. In Prisoner Re-entry and Social Capital,
authors Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery challenge this myth.
Prisoner Re-entry and Social Capital takes as its starting point
interviews with twenty-five men and women during the summer of 2008
about their experiences with re-entering the "free world" after a
period of incarceration. By analyzing the experiences of these men
and women, Smith and Hattery look in depth at the factors that
inhibit successful re-entry and illustrate some successes and
failures. The book examines individual characteristics that inhibit
successful re-entry such as addiction and sex offender status as
well as the unique challenges faced by women. Uniquely, Smith and
Hattery focus on the role that social capital plays as one of the
most important factors that shapes the re-entry experience. Today,
one of the most pressing issues facing scholars, those who work in
the criminal justice system, and the citizenry as a whole is the
extraordinarily high rate of recidivism. These interviews and
analyses provide a deeper and more precise understanding of the
biases faced by re-entry felons in the labor market and work to
address the key barriers to re-entry in hopes to aid in their
elimination.
This book offers practical advice on designing, conducting and
analyzing interviews with 'elite' and 'expert' persons (or
'socially prominent actors'), with a focus on criminology and
criminal justice. It offers dilemmas and examples of 'good' and
'bad' practices in order to encourage readers to critically asses
their own work. It also addresses methodological issues which
include: access, power imbalances, getting past 'corporate
answers', considerations of whether or not it is at times
acceptable to ask leading questions and whether to enter a
discussion with a respondent at all. This book will be valuable to
students and scholars conducting qualitative research.
Revelations about U.S. torture and prisoner abuse in blatant
violation of the long-established and universally recognized Geneva
Conventions have horrified most Americans. Nevertheless, it has
been argued that the high stakes of the "War on Terror" have made
the protections offered by the Conventions obsolete, or that the
abuses are the work of a few rogue soldiers and officers. This book
reaches past the headlines into the historical record to document
POW torture and also domestic prisoner abuse dating well back in
our history as well as government and military knowledge of and
collusion in such ostensibly illegal and reprehensible acts. Is
torture and prisoner abuse justified in the name of some greater
good? As a society we shall have to decide. The historical record
presented here can contribute much to an informed national
discussion. Series features: BLTimeline anchoring the discussion in
time and place BLBibliography of print and Internet resources
guiding further exploration of the subject BLCharts and tables
analyzing complex data, including survey results
Rape is a fact of life for the incarcerated. Can American society
maintain the commitment expressed in recent federal legislation to
eliminate the rampant and costly sexual abuse that has been
institutionalized into its system of incarceration? Each year, as
many as 200,000 individuals are victims of various types of sexual
abuse perpetrated in American prisons, jails, juvenile detention
facilities, and lockups. As many as 80,000 of them suffer violent
or repeated rape. Those who are outside the incarceration
experience are largely unaware of this ongoing physical and mental
damage-abuses that not only affect the victims and perpetrators,
but also impose vast costs on society as a whole. This book
supplies a uniquely full account of this widespread sexual abuse
problem. Author Michael Singer has drawn on official reports to
provide a realistic assessment of the staggering financial cost to
society of this sexual abuse, and comprehensively addressed the
current, severely limited legal procedures for combating sexual
abuse in incarceration. The book also provides an evaluation of the
Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 and its recently announced
national standards, and assesses their likely future impact on the
institution of prison rape in America.
This 25-volume set has titles originally published between 1951 and
1995. It explores several different aspects of the police and their
approaches to policing over the years. Many of the titles are from
the 1980s, where the police were beginning to come under increasing
scrutiny and their relationship with the public was under pressure.
Topics include: accountability, community policing, police work,
policy, training, along with international comparisons. Ongoing
debates of police accountability and police race relations today
mean this collection is a timely resource for those interested in
criminology, particularly the recent history of the police and
their role in society.
This book offers a unique look into prisons in Iran and the lives
of the prisoners and their families. It provides an overview of the
history of Iranian prisons, depicts the sub-culture in contemporary
Iranian prisons, and highlights the forms that gender
discrimination takes behind the prison walls. The book draws on the
voices of 90 men and women who have been imprisoned in Iran,
interviewed in 2012 and 2017 across various parts of the Islamic
Republic of Iran. It presents a different approach to the one
proposed by Michel Foucault in Discipline and Punish because the
author argues that Iran never experienced "the age of sobriety in
punishment" and "a slackening of the hold on the body". Whilst
penal severity in Iran has reduced, its scope has now extended
beyond prisoners to their families, regardless of their age and
gender. In Iran, penalties still target the body but now also
affect the bodies of the entire prisoner's family. It is not just
prisoners who suffer from the lack of food, clothes, spaces for
sleeping, health services, legal services, safety, and threats of
physical violence and abuse but also their families. The book
highlights the costs of mothers' incarceration for their children.
It argues that as long as punishment remains the dominant discourse
of the penal system, the minds and bodies of anyone related to
incarcerated offenders will remain under tremendous strain. This
unique book explores the nature of these systems in a deeply
under-covered nation to expand understandings of prisons in the
non-Western world.
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