Reconceptualising Penality: A Comparative Perspective on Punitiveness in Ireland, Scotland and New Zealand by Claire Hamilton

Reconceptualising Penality: A Comparative Perspective on Punitiveness in Ireland, Scotland and New Zealand

Claire Hamilton

252 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction sociology medium-paced
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Drastic increases in the use of imprisonment; the introduction of 'three strikes' laws and mandatory sentences; restrictions on parole - all of these developments appear to signify a new, harsher era or 'punitive turn'. Yet these features of crimi...

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