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- Identify the aims of imprisonment as punishment and recognise the justifications and ethical implications of subjecting individuals to custody.
- Explore prison conditions and regimes, considered in relation to punishment being solely ‘loss of liberty’.
- Identify issues facing prisons, including safety and security, overcrowding and drug misuse.
- Compare jurisdictions with different aims and objectives.
- Explore the criminal justice system: what sanctions are available and where punish and imprisonment fits.
- Examine rehabilitation as a key to reducing reconviction rates and crime by changing the individual and/or providing skills ready for release.
- Explore alternatives to custody for less serious crimes: fines, community orders and suspended sentences.
- Assess the effectiveness of such sanctions in comparison with custody.
- Discuss the extent to which rehabilitation and resettlement are key to reducing reoffending.
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This comprehensive handbook provides a broad overview of criminology, covering a wide range of topics including theories of crime, criminal behavior, and the criminal justice system.
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This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the American criminal justice system, from policing to corrections.
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This textbook provides a sociological perspective on the criminal justice system, focusing on the social and political forces that shape it.
This textbook provides an overview of the relationship between race, crime, and justice in the United States.
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Argues that mass incarceration new form of racial segregation in the United States.
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This memoir by a lawyer who represents death row inmates provides a powerful indictment of the American criminal justice system.
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This report provides an overview of the trends in U.S. corrections, including data on the prison population, the use of probation and parole, and the racial disparities in the criminal justice system.
This report examines the collateral consequences of mass incarceration, such as the loss of voting rights, the inability to obtain employment, and the stigma associated with a criminal record.
This report examines the financial burden of the criminal justice system, including the costs of fines, fees, and bail.
Examines the future of punishment in the United States, arguing for a more just and humane system.
Examines the relationship between the criminal justice system and human rights, focusing on the ways in which the criminal justice system can violate human rights.
Examines the relationship between criminology and criminal policy, focusing on the ways in which criminological research can inform criminal policy.
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Argues that mass incarceration new form of racial oppression in the United States, and that it has had a devastating impact on Black communities.
Argues that prisons are not an effective way to reduce crime, and that they actually do more harm than good.
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Argues that we need to rethink our entire approach to punishment, and that we should focus on rehabilitation rather than retribution.
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory, and practice of penology, with contributions from leading scholars in the field.
Provides a historical overview of prisons, from their origins in the Middle Ages to the present day.
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Provides a comprehensive overview of the prison system in the United States, from its origins to the present day.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the causes and consequences of mass incarceration in the United States.
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Examines the racial and ethnic disparities in state prisons in the United States.
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