Penal culture and hyperincarceration : the revival of the prison /
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| Author / Creator: | Cunneen, Chris, 1953- |
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| Imprint: | Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2013] ©2013 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Advances in criminology Advances in criminology. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11207263 |
| Summary: | Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book analyses international developments in penality and imprisonment. Authored by some of AustraliaOCOs leading penal theorists, the book examines the historical and contemporary influences on the use of the prison, with analyses of colonialism, post colonialism, race, and what they term the OCypenal/colonial complexOCO, in the construction of imprisonment rates and on the development of the phenomenon of hyperincarceration. Comparative, contemporary and historical in its approach, the book provides a new analysis of penality in the 21st century." |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781409447306 1409447308 9781409474838 1409474836 9781409447290 1409447294 1317082656 9781317082651 |