| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Advances in criminology
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Advances in criminology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Penal culture: the meaning of imprisonment -- Global convictism and the postcolonial -- Parliaments, courts and imprisonment rates -- Correctional paradigms: the rise of risk -- Suitable enemies: penal subjects -- Reinvigorating the prison: new perspectives on containment -- Penal culture: transmission, normalisation and reproduction -- Winding back mass imprisonment? -- Manifestations of contemporary penal culture. |
| 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 Australia's 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 'penal/colonial complex', 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 n. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Prisons.
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Prisons. |
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Prisons -- Australia.
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Australia. |
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Corrections.
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Corrections. |
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Corrections -- Australia.
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Criminal justice, Administration of.
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Criminal justice, Administration of. |
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Australia.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Baldry, Eillen.
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Brown, David, 1948-
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Schwartz, Melanie.
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Steel, Alex.
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Brown, Mark, 1965-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cunneen, Chris, 1953- Penal culture and hyperincarceration. Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, 2013 (DLC) 2013002715 |
| ISBN |
9781409447306 (electronic book) |
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1409447308 (electronic book) |
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9781409447290 (hardback) |
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