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How do governments and societies use prison to respond to underlying and fundamental social, economic and political issues? Using data on world imprisonment and numerous international examples from...
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How do governments and societies use prison to respond to underlying and fundamental social, economic and political issues?

Using data on world imprisonment and numerous international examples from his personal experience, Coyle, a prison practitioner, academic and international expert, discusses the failings of prison around the world.

Acknowledging the influence of external agencies, such as the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and court interventions in the use of solitary confinement, he offers some positive pointers for the future and how there might be a better distribution of resources between criminal justice and social justice by an application of the principles of Justice Reinvestment.

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Price: $32.95
Pages: 246
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Publication Date: 02 December 2021
ISBN: 9781447362470
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Penology and punishment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Sociology and anthropology

"A tour-de-force that examines and combines two main elements of penology... of great importance to anyone who has an interest in 'real-life' prisons stories and experiences." Prison Service Journal

Andrew Coyle is Emeritus Professor of Prison Studies at the University of London. Following a distinguished career as a prison governor he became founding Director of the International Centre for Prison Studies in King’s College London and has spent many years advising national governments and international agencies on prison related issues in over 70 countries.

1. Introduction

2. The world of prisons

3. Prisons of the world

4. International Centre for Prison Studies

5. Women: the forgotten minority

6. The legacy of the Gulag

7. European Committee for the Prevention of Torture

8. Regional contrasts: Cambodia and Japan

9. Latin America: the iron fist or the New Model?

10. Barbados and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

11. Sub-Saharan Africa: an expensive colonial legacy

12. The Jericho Monitoring Mission

13. Towards ‘a better way’