Western European Penal Systems - A Critical Anatomy (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Sage Publications Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 1995
First published:	1995
Editors:	Vincenzo Ruggiero • Mick Ryan • Joe Sim
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-8039-7721-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > Prisons Promotions
LSN:	0-8039-7721-2
Barcode:	9780803977211

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