Canadian Penology: Advanced Perspectives and Research

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Kevin R. E. McCormick, L. A. Visano
Canadian Scholars' Press, 1992 - Law - 460 pages
1. Bilateral legitimation: the parole pendulum / Robert S. Ratner. -- 2. Punishing for profit: reflections on the revival of privatization in corrections / Richard V. Ericson, Maeve W. McMahon & Donald G. Evans. -- 3. Risky business: the classification of dangerous people in the Canadian carceral enterprise / Robert Menzies, Dorothy E. Chunn & Christopher D. Webster. -- 4. Regional variation in sentencing young offenders in Canada / Carl Keane, Paul Maxim & Martha Dow. -- 5. A closed security youth facility: rehabilitation or joyride? An exploratory study of a murder case processed through the Young Offenders Act. / Gary M. O'Bireck. -- 6. The use of detention for aboriginal offenders in East James Bay Courts / Carol LaPrairie. -- 7. Confronting individual and structural barriers to employment: the Employment and Skills Enhancement (EASE) program for prisoners / Denis C. Bracken & Russell J. Loewen. -- 8. Reforming reform institutions / Peter Oliver. -- 9. The great repression: criminal punishment in the nineteen-eighties / Michael Mandel. -- 10. From big house to big brother: confinement in the future / Ian M. Gomme. -- 11. Corrections and community (in)action / Kevin R. E. McCormick & Livy A. Visano. -- 12. "The dark workshop": life sentences, prison conditions and the politics of punishment / Thomas O'Reilly-Fleming. -- 13. Shocked, disciplined and inspected: shock incarceration and cultural sensibilities / Kevin Haggerty. -- 14. Technology and control: generic trends / Kevin R. E. McCormick & Livy A. Visano. -- 15. Dare to struggle ... political prisoners and the criminalization of dissent in the United States: insidious implications for Canadians / Rick Lines.

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Section 1
1929
Section 2
1933
Section 3
1957

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