Transnational Penal Cultures: New perspectives on discipline, punishment and desistance

by Vivien Miller

Book Overview

Focusing on three key stages of the criminal justice process, discipline, punishment and desistance, and incorporating case studies from Asia, the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia, the thirteen chapters in this collection are based on exciting new research that explores the evolution and adaptation of criminal justice and penal systems, largely from the early nineteenth century to the present. They range across the disciplinary boundaries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415741319
• ISBN13: 9780415741316
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"