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Author McMahon, Maeve W. (Maeve Winifred), 1957-

Title The persistent prison? : rethinking decarceration and penal reform / Maeve W. McMahon.

Publication Info. Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, [1992]
©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 274 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-264) and index.
Contents Foreword / Richard V. Ericson -- 1. Imprisonment, Alternatives, and Penalty. Imprisonment and Alternatives. Criminological Knowledge and Penalty -- 2. The Prison, Criminology, and Rehabilitation. The Prison, Criminology, and the Ascendancy of Rehabilitation. Negative Findings about Rehabilitation. Intellectual and Political Movements Away from the Prison. Discursive and Strategic Movements Away from the Prison -- 3. The Evolution and Assumptions of Critical Literature on Community Corrections. The Genesis of Critical Analyses of Correctional Issues. Changing Understanding of Decarceration and Community Corrections. The Conventional Wisdom of the Decarceration Literature. Perceptions of the Maintenance and Increase of Imprisonment. Political Rationales for Challenging Net-widening -- 4. Problematic Aspects of the Decarceration Literature. Characteristics of Analyses of Net-widening. Canadian Analysis of Decarceration and Net-widening. Issues in Comparing Data on Probation and Imprisonment. The Case of the United States. The Case of Britain. Re-examining Issues and Practices of Decarceration -- 5. Decarceration in Postwar Ontario. Ontario Postwar Correctional Discourses and Practices. Trends in Ontario Prison Population. Decarceration in Ontario -- 6. Explaining Decarceration: Trends in Probation and Community Corrections. Probation and Issues of Penal Expansion. Probation and the Absence of Net-widening. Community Corrections and Changes in Penal Control. Community Corrections and Changes in Incarceration. Community Corrections and Changes in Probation. Probation as Explaining Decarceration: Cautionary Observations -- 7. Explaining Decarceration: Fines and Fine Defaults. Discrepancies between Court and Correctional Data on Imprisonment. Non-payment of Fines and Imprisonment. Liquor Offences and Fine-Default Admissions to Prison. Decreasing Fines for Intoxication and Incarceration -- 8. Drunkenness Offenders and the Revolving Door. Drunkenness Offenders and the Penal System in the 1950s. Changes in the Processing of Drunkenness Offenders. The Lack of Net-widening in the Decarceration of Drunkenness Offenders. Developments in Countering Fine-Default Admissions to Prison. Native Fine-Defaulters in Kenora. Imprisonment for Fine Default and Corrections -- 9. The Origins and Accomplishments of Community Corrections in Ontario. The Intentions and Effects of Community Corrections. The Emergence of the Issue of Overcrowding in the Mid-1970s. Officials' Perception of a Need to Enhance the Ministry's Image. Privatized Community Corrections as a Response to Fiscal Adversity. The Uses and Accomplishments of Community Corrections. Analysing Community Corrections -- 10. Penal Trends in Ontario. The Police, Crime, and Sentencing. Victim and Police Tendencies in Reporting and Recording Crime. Trends in Penal and Social Control -- 11. Knowledge, Power, and Decarceration. Decarceration in Ontario. The Contradiction between Theories and Politics. Constraining Conceptions of Power. Changing Conceptions of Power. Conclusion.
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Subject Imprisonment -- Ontario.
Imprisonment.
Ontario.
Correctional law -- Ontario.
Correctional law.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Ontario.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: McMahon, Maeve W. (Maeve Winifred), 1957- Persistent prison?. Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©1992 (DLC) 93108944 (OCoLC)28377969
ISBN 9781442682023 (electronic book)
1442682027 (electronic book)
0802028179 (bound)
0802076890 (paperback)
9780802076892
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