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Title:

Crime, punishment, and politics in comparative perspective / edited by Michael Tonry.

Publisher:

University Of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

ix, 673 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Criminal justice, Administration of--Cross-cultural studies.
Punishment--Cross-cultural studies.
Crime--Government policy--Cross-cultural studies.
Criminaliteit.
Strafrechtspleging.
Justitieel beleid

Other Authors:

Tonry, Michael H.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Determinants of penal policy / Michael Tonry -- Comparative penology in perspective / Jean-Paul Brodeur -- Visions of penal control in the Netherlands / David Downes -- Penal policy and practice in Belgium / Sonja Snacken -- Penal policy in Scandinavia / Tapio Lappi-Seppala -- Punitive trends and stable imprisonment rates in Canada / Cheryl Marie Webster and Anthony N. Doob -- Crime and punishment in contemporary Japan / David T. Johnson -- Tough on crime : penal policy in England and Wales / Tim Newburn -- The illusion of severity in French criminal justice policy / Sebastian Roché -- Pardons and amnesties as policy instruments in contemporary France / René Lévy -- Comparing penal cultures : responses to child-on-child homicide in England and Norway / David A. Green.

Series:

Crime and justice, 0192-3234 ; v. 36

ISBN:

0226080641 (pbk.)
9780226080642 (pbk.)
0226080633
9780226080635
0226808645 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226808642 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226808637 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226808635 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007009846

Locations:

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)     ** Lending Suspended

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)