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A history of prison and confinement in Africa
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A history of prison and confinement in Africa
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A history of prison and confinement in Africa
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Type: Book
The papers in this collection discuss the use of prison and confinement in Africa. Topics include precolonial punishments, living conditions in prisons and mining camps, ethnic mapping, contemporary refugee camps, and the political use of prison from the era of the slave trade t…
Almost everyone agrees - Right on Crime, the ACLU, Koch Industries, George Soros's Open Society Foundation, the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal - that America's current systems for sentencing criminal offenders are a shambles, with crazy quilts…
In lucid and engaging prose, Michael Tonry reveals the historical foundation for the current state of the American criminal justice system, while simultaneously offering a game plan for long overdue reform.
Examining two overlapping aspects of the prison experience that, despite their central importance, have not attracted the scholarly attention they deserve, this book assesses both the degree to which prisoners can withstand the rigours of solitude and how they experience the pas…
Présentation de l'éditeur : "Examining two overlapping aspects of the prison experience that, despite their central importance, have not attracted the scholarly attention they deserve, this book assesses both the degree to which prisoners can withstand the rigours of solitude an…
Cover; Series; Prisoners, Solitude, and Time; Copyright; Preface; Contents; List of Tables; 1 Historical Perspectives; Chatter and its Discontents; The Architecture of Isolation; Debate and Dissent; The Model Prison; A 'maniac-making system'?; The Hard Cell of Solitude; 2 Recons…
This title incorporates data gathered over 18 months, including visits to prisons, and correspondence with prisoners and hermits, alongside newspaper reports, tracts written by prison chaplains and reformers, official publications, and documents produced by commissions of inquir…
Examining two overlapping aspects of the prison experience that, despite their central importance, have not attracted the scholarly attention they deserve, this book assesses both the degree to which prisoners can withstand the rigours of solitude and how they experience the pas…
Examining two overlapping aspects of the prison experience that, despite their central importance, have not attracted the scholarly attention they deserve, this book assesses both the degree to which prisoners can withstand the rigours of solitude and how they experience the pas…
"Mikhail Khodorkovsky was Russia's leading businessman and an outspoken Kremlin critic. Under his leadership, the oil company Yukos revived the Russian oil industry, and as the company thrived, he began sponsoring programs to encourage civil society and fight corruption. When he…
