Making sense of penal change
By: Tom Daems.
Series: Clarendon studies in criminology
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780199559787
Subjects: Punishment in crime deterrence; Punishment -- Social aspects
Description: This title reviews the literature on contemporary punishment and examines the approaches of four leading scholars to questions of penal change, analysing the relationship between their roles as scholars in an academic environment and as citizens in a political community.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.