Penal Systems: A Comparative Approach

Mick Cavadino,James Dignan

ISBN 10: 0761952039 / ISBN 13: 9780761952039

Editore: SAGE Publications Ltd 2005-10-26, 2005

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• Titolo: Penal Systems: A Comparative Approach
• Editore: SAGE Publications Ltd 2005-10-26
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0761952039
• ISBN 13: 9780761952039
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Edizione: quarta edizione
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

Penal Systems: A Comparative Approach is a comprehensive and original introduction to the comparative study of punishment. Analyzing twelve countries, authors Michael Cavadino and James Dignan offer an integrated and theoretically rigorous approach to comparative penology. They draw upon material provided by a team of eminent penologists to produce an important and highly readable contribution to scholarship in this area.

Informazioni sull?autore

Michael Cavadino, who is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Central Lancashire, is an internationally known author and researcher in the fields of penology (the study of punishment) and mental health law. He is co-author of the leading textbook on the penal system of England and Wales (M Cavadino, J Dignan and G Mair, The Penal System: An Introduction, 5th ed., Sage Publications 2013). His other works include Mental Health Law in Context: Doctors′ Orders? (Dartmouth, 1989) and M Cavadino and J Dignan, Penal Systems: A Comparative Approach (Sage Publications, 2006).