Hard Lessons: Reflections on Governance and Crime Control in Late Modernity

by Gordon Tait

Originally published in 2004. The essays in this engaging book catalogue a wide and varied range of instances where 'things go wrong' in the practices of criminal justice. The contributions document instances where laws, policies and practices have produced unintended consequences of the most deleterious kind, drawing attention to the prison system, 'boot camps', detention centres and specific penal policies such as the 'short, sharp shock', parental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138619876
• ISBN13: 9781138619876
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 206 Pages