The politics of crime control
Subtitle: essays in honour of David Downes
By: edited by Tim Newburn and Paul Rock
Series: Clarendon studies in criminology; Clarendon studies in criminology; Oxford scholarship online
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780191701948
Subjects: Corrections; Crime prevention
Description: Contributions cover such subjects as criminological theory and the new East End of London, the practice of comparative criminology including an analysis of variations in penal cultures within the US, restorative justice in Colombia, New Labour's politics and policy in relation to dangerous personality-disordered offenders, the legal construction of torture, and the future for a social democratic criminology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.