| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Security in the Americas in the twenty-first century
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Security in the Americas in the twenty-first century.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
General trends of prisons in the Americas / Astrid Arrará́s and Emily D. Bello-Pardo -- Broken systems: prisons and prison gangs in California and the United States / Susan A. Phillips and Jonathan D. Rosen -- Penitentiary system in Mexico: an institution permeated by corruption and controlled by organized crime / Roberto Zepeda Martinez -- Drugs, crime and prisons in Guatemala / Tamara Rice Lave -- Haiti: prisons, organized crime, and drug trafficking / Christa L. Remington and Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor -- Retribution vs. reintegration: the Trinidad and Tobago reality / Dianne Williams and Randy Seepersad -- Organized chaos: Venezuela's prison crisis / Brian Fonseca and Pamela Pamelá -- Drugs and prisons: the slippery road to the criminalization of drugs in Ecuador / Adrián Bonilla and Nashira Chávez -- A special kind of hell: the Bolivian penal system / Marten W. Brienen -- Drugs and the prison crisis in Peru / Lucía Dammert and Manuel Dammert G. -- Beyond overcrowding: the decline of the Brazilian penitentiary system / Marcelo Rocha e Silva Zorovich -- Drug-crime-prison nexus: what the U.S. experience suggests for Argentina / Khatchik DerGhougassian and Sebastián A. Cutrona -- Prison reform: an international solution / W. Andy Knight. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Prisons -- America.
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Prisons. |
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America. |
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Imprisonment -- America.
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Corrections -- America.
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Imprisonment. |
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Corrections. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology. |
| Added Author |
Rosen, Jonathan D.
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Brienen, Marten W.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Prisons in the Americas in the twenty first century. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015] 9780739191354 (DLC) 2015001564 |
| ISBN |
9780739191361 (ebook) |
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0739191365 |
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9780739191361 (electronic) |
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0739191357 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780739191354 |
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9780739191354 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
12398688 |
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