The Penal System: An IntroductionNow in its Sixth Edition, this book remains the most comprehensive and authoritative on the penal system, providing students with an incisive, critical account of the punitive, managerial and humanitarian approaches to criminal justice.
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... women, in their material life, in their determinate relationships, in their experience of these, and in their self-consciousness of this experience' (Thompson, 1978: 289). He also accused Althusser of covert 'idealism' in that his ...
... Women in Prison) has often had noticeable effects in penal developments. Recently there has been an emergence of populist nonstate groupings such as the Victims of Crime Trust, which campaign noisily and in tandem with the popular media ...
... women, in determinate productive relations, identify their antagonistic interests, and come to struggle, to think, and to value in class ways'. Furthermore, law and the state afford 'an arena for class struggle' (1978: 288) in which ...
... women now account for 54 per cent of magistrates (Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and Senior President of Tribunals, 2017). Magistrates tend to be conservative, and not only with a small 'c' (for example Dignan and Wynne (1997:8) ...
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The Penal System: An Introduction Michael Cavadino,James Dignan,George Mair,Jamie Bennett No preview available - 2019 |
The Penal System: An Introduction Michael Cavadino,James Dignan,George Mair,Jamie Bennett No preview available - 2020 |
The Penal System: An Introduction Michael Cavadino,James Dignan,George Mair,Jamie Bennett No preview available - 2020 |