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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2011.
Description:1 online resource (345 pages).
Language:English
Series:Key Issues in Crime and Punishment
Key issues in crime and punishment.
Subject:
Crime.
Law enforcement.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Corrections.
Juvenile delinquency.
Corrections.
Crime.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Juvenile delinquency.
Law enforcement.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11143096
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Chambliss, William J.
ISBN:9781452266435
1452266433
9781412994101
1412994101
9781780341262
1780341261
1412978564
9781412978569
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:Corrections looks at the correctional system and offers arguments for and against the practice of the laws and policies that comprise corrections, from parole and probation to imprisonment, to the application of the death penalty. The 20 included chapters, written by eminent scholars and experts in the fields of criminology, police science, law, sociology, psychology, and other disciplines, take on such contested topics as what the goals of the correctional system should be (deterrence, rehabilitation, retribution, or something else?) and how they should be achieved; who should make these dec.
Other form:Print version: 9781412978569

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