The Persistent Prison? : : Rethinking Decarceration and Penal Reform / / Maeve McMahon.

The Prison system is widely believed to be an immutable element of contemporary society. Many criminologists and sociologists of deviance believe that decarceration movements have failed to yield progressive reform, and that feasible alternatives to the prison system do not exist. Maeve McMahon chal...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (274 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. IMPRISONMENT, ALTERNATIVES, AND PENALITY
  • 2. THE PRISON, CRIMINOLOGY, AND REHABILITATION
  • 3. THE EVOLUTION AND ASSUMPTIONS OF CRITICAL LITERATURE ON COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS
  • 4. PROBLEMATIC ASPECTS OF THE DECARCERATION LITERATURE
  • 5. DECARCERATION IN POSTWAR ONTARIO
  • 6. EXPLAINING DECARCERATION: TRENDS IN PROBATION AND COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS
  • 7. EXPLAINING DECARCERATION: FINES AND FINE DEFAULTS
  • 8. Drunkenness Offenders and the Revolving Door
  • 9. THE ORIGINS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS IN ONTARIO
  • 10. PENAL TRENDS IN ONTARIO
  • 11. KNOWLEDGE, POWER, AND DECARCERATION
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index