International handbook of penology and criminal justice
By: edited by Shlomo Giora Shoham, Ori Beck, Martin Kett.
Contributors: Shoham, S. Giora, 1929-; Beck, Ori.; Kett, Martin.
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boca Raton, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 772
ISBN-13: 9781420053876
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of; Prisons; Punishment; Crime prevention
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Shlomo Giora Shoham; title: Punishment and culture / Thomas G. Blomberg, William D. Bales, and Courtney A. Waid; title: Prisons and jails / Roy D. King; title: Suicide in prisons and jails / Christine Tartaro and David Lester; title: Hit 'em where it hurts : monetary and nontraditional punitive sanctions / Shanna Van Slyke, Gordon P. Waldo, and William Bales; title: The death penalty : the movement towards worldwide abolition / Roger Hood; title: Probation, parole, and community corrections : an international perspective / Lawrence F. Travis and Victoria Simpson Beck; title: Crime prevention / Steven P. Lab; title: Situational crime prevention / Marcus Felson; title: Early developmental crime prevention / David P. Farrington and Brandon C. Welsh; title: Deterrence and deterrence experiences : preventing crime through the threat of punishment / Per-Olof H. Wikström; title: Retribution and retaliation / John Pratt; title: Reparation, compensation, and restitution : our best explanations / C.F. Abel; title: The police / Joseph A. Schafer and Clemens Bartollas; title: What can police do to reduce crime, disorder, and fear? / David Weisburd and John E. Eck; title: When states do not extradite : gaps in the global web of formal social control / William F. McDonald; title: A comparative look at the roles and functions of the prosecution and defense in western trial systems / William T. Pizzi; title: Sentencing structure and reform in common law jurisdictions / Julian V. Roberts and Estella Baker; title: Victims and victimization / Ken Pease; title: Restorative justice : an alternative for responding to crime? / Lode Walgrave; title: The practice of victim offender mediation : a look at the evidence / Mark S. Umbreit, Robert B. Coates, and Betty Vos; title: Lenient justice? punishing white-collar and corporate crime / Henry N. Pontell, Stephen M. Rosoff, and Andrew Peterson; title: The third wave : American sex offender policies since the 1990s / Jonathan Simon and Chrysanthi Leon.