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03094aam a2200433 i 4500 001 0A385748177D11EC850ADFAD22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210917010313 008 210527t20212021enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021024928 020 $a 9781108738194 020 $a 1108738192 020 $a 1108487882 020 $a 9781108487887 035 $a (OCoLC)1197721307 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d YDX $d EAU $d OCLCO $d QGK $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a cl----- 050 00 $a HV9510.5 $b .B47 2021 084 $a POL040000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Bergman, Marcelo, $e author. 245 10 $a Prisons and crime in Latin America / $c Marcelo Bergman, Gustavo Fondevila. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdon ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a xv, 261 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- The prison explosion in Latin America -- Explaining the prison growth -- Drugs and prisons -- Women imprisonment and violence in Latin America -- Justice institutions in Latin America -- Life in prison -- Hobbes in prison -- Prison and the outside world : the fallacy of separation -- Conclusions : corrections and criminal policy -- Appendix: Methodological notes on surveys. 520 $a "As this book goes to print, we find ourselves in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, having completed revisions to the manuscript before the pandemic started. As has occurred worldwide, the virus has hit the penitentiary systems in Latin American particularly hard. COVID-19 is ravaging prisons throughout the region, altering normal life within them. While it is impossible to predict what the final impact of the pandemic will be, there is no doubt that it will have a significant effect on the whole incarceration process. In order to collect data on the scope of the initial impact of the pandemic, the authors of this book, together with a group of scholars, conducted an evaluation survey of 18 Latin American penitentiary systems.1 Based on preliminary results, as of May 2020, 96% of the systems were found to have severely restricted visits, 90% of the education programs within prisons were suspended or restricted, and in 53%, work program were curtailed"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Prisons $z Latin America. 650 0 $a Crime $z Latin America. 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Crime. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00882984 650 7 $a Criminal justice, Administration of. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00883246 650 7 $a Prisons. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01077326 651 7 $a Latin America. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01245945 700 1 $a Fondevila, Gustavo, $e author. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Bergman, Marcelo $t Prisons and crime in Latin America $d Cambridge, United Kingdon ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 $z 9781108768238 $w (DLC) 2021024929 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526020057.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0A385748177D11EC850ADFAD22ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search