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This book provides international perspectives on corrections, correctional treatment, and penitentiary laws. Although its focus is on African and South American countries, the information provided can be easily expanded to North America and Europe. The chapters present legal frameworks and applied research on prisons and their potential to deter crime and reduce recidivism rates. The book puts the human rights agenda at the forefront and is a useful resource for those who work in corrections, including prison, education, and probation officers.
Corrections. --- Imprisonment. --- Prisons.
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Fernando Cadalso and Manzano (1859-1939) was one of the most important Spanish criminal lawyers of the first half of the 20th century. He had a long and prolific career in the prisons field: director of several prisons (The Model Prison of Madrid, amongst others); General Surveyor of Prisons during twenty five years (the third most important position, under the Minister of Grace and Justice and the General Director); representative of Spain in four international prison congresses; he established the progressive system in prisons, which lasted until the sanction of the Prison General Organic Law in 1979; he carried out field trips in several European nations and in the United States of America, from which he imported the model of the reformatory for adults established in Ocaña (province of Toledo); he collaborated in the bill of probation; he was the Head of the Criminology School; and his resume still goes on. Shortly before retirement, during Primo de Rivera’s Military Directory, he was in charge of the Ministry of Grace and Justice. Throughout his life, Cadalso attempted to raise awareness both in society and public authorities on the importance of the prison reform, the welfare of prison populations (by means of work, education and religion), and the enhancement of corps of prisons officers (labor stability, wages increase, entry by competitive examination, seniority promotion). He promoted this task in four fields: 1) Administrative: through his performance in the prisons field; 2) Intellectual: writing in scientific magazines and newspapers, creating his own Prisons Magazine and publishing several papers; 3) Social: he dictated conferences in union and cultural centers and created and participated in several organizations – Association for Prison Studies and Rehabilitation of Offenders, Social Reform Institution, Assistance Commission to Alienates, etc. Finally, 4) Political: through the links established with the ruling elite –specially with Eduardo Dato Iradier and Julián García San Miguel, Marqués de Teverga-. Notwithstanding the huge work carried out during half a century to reform the Spanish prison system, Cadalso’s figure has not been studied in depth by the law and social historiography. Therefore, this biographical work attempts to reconstruct his track in the Spanish prison administration, by means of file documentation never searched before and edited sources barely used, taking into account: 1) The transformations and contradictions in his practice and thinking; 2) The ideas taken from the Italian criminal positivism; 3) His field trips and his attendance to international scientific meetings; 4) His proposals in matters such as the anarchism problem, police reforms, identification of offenders, etc.; 5) His commitment almost solitarily to the U.S. prison model; 6) Creation of institutions: the reformatory for adults in Ocaña, Alicante and Segovia, the progressive system, probation; and finally 7) His genuine contribution and his legacy to the Spanish prison system. We hope this work may allow reconstructing the prison law culture during the period covering from the Restoration to the Second Republic (paramount period, barely approached by the law and social historiography) and de-constructing some tales firmly grounded, particularly that relating the practice of prison reforms with the installation of progressive governments (First and Second Republic) and, on the contrary, deterioration of the prison population with the arrival of conservative administrations to the power during the reign of Alfonso XIII and Primo de Rivera’s Military
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Dark tourism --- Prisoners --- Prisons and race relations --- Prisons --- History --- History
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Depuis l'ouvrage de Florence Bernault consacré à l'histoire des prisons africaines, les sciences sociales francophones sont restées singulièrement silencieuses sur les enjeux carcéraux en Afrique. Le présent volume entend combler ce manque à partir de recherches ethnographiques - entretiens, enquêtes de terrain, consultation d'archives - conduites par une équipe pluridisciplinaire dans dix pays du continent, en Afrique francophone et anglophone : Tunisie, Sénégal, Burkina Faso, Côte d'ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Éthiopie, Burundi, Cameroun et Afrique du Sud.00Cet ouvrage permet de rompre avec les images archétypales et lacunaires souvent véhiculées sur les prisons du continent, et propose une lecture nuancée de l'expérience carcérale articulée aux représentations de la justice. Il étudie le phénomène carcéral en Afrique dans une perspective historique autant qu'il s'intéresse aux enjeux contemporains de la réforme carcérale. Enfin, il invite à saisir l'empreinte de la prison au-delà de ses murs.00II intéressera les chercheurs, les étudiants ainsi que la pluralité des acteurs impliqués dans le travail carcéral et dans les débats sur les réformes pénitentiaires et le sens de la prison.
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"Este livro é o resultado de um percurso de pesquisa com contornos raros entre nós. Há cerca de uma década, Manuela Ivone Cunha iniciava o seu trabalho de campo no Estabelecimento Prisional de Tires. Hoje apresenta-nos os resultados da investigação realizada durante o seu regresso àquela instituição, num livro que é um ponto de viragem na antropologia portuguesa e no nosso entendimento da criminalidade, do que poderíamos chamar o sistema da droga e. num âmbito mais vasto, das estruturas de desigualdade na nossa sociedade." Miguel Vale de Almeida.
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The first behind-the-walls look at the "hidden life" of Polish prisons, this book penetrates the inmates' façade of silence and deception toward outsiders and presents a vivit portrait of the prison's secret social organization.
Criminals --- Interpersonal relations --- Prisons --- Rehabilitation --- European history
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La prison demeure un univers méconnu. Cet ouvrage a pour but, non seulement de synthétiser l'essentiel des connaissances sur le milieu carcéral, le vécu des détenus, la place des gardiens, les liens entre membres du personnel et personnes incarcérées, mais aussi de réfléchir à l'institution elle-même dans un contexte de reconnaissance des droits des détenus et de bureaucratisation. Entre " prisonniérisation " et réinsertion sociale, entre coercition et relation d'aide, l'organisation carcérale a-t-elle encore son caractère " total " et coercitif dont on parlait au cours des années 1960 et 1970, ou bien a-t-elle changé en profondeur et jusqu'à quel point? En mettant l'accent sur les changements que la prison a connus depuis la fin des années 1970 et plus particulièrement ceux de la dernière décennie, les auteurs apportent un nouvel éclairage sur des dimensions importantes du milieu carcéral.
Imprisonment --- Prison psychology. --- Prisons. --- Psychological aspects.
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Faros y pantanos, es una propuesta de diálogo con la historiografía de las prisiones argentinas que vio en las cárceles provinciales, "pantanos": espacios inmóviles, grises y sin cambios. Si bien es cierto que los ritmos de cambio provinciales diferían enormem. Beacons and swamps is a proposal for dialogue with the historiography of Argentine prisons, which saw provincial prisons as "swamps": immobile, grey, unchanging spaces. Although it is true that the pace of change in the provinces differed enormously from that.
Prisons --- History. --- Dungeons --- Gaols --- Penitentiaries --- Correctional institutions --- Imprisonment --- Prison-industrial complex --- Prisons.
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The Western world stereotypically associates Ottoman or 'Turkish' prisons with images of torture, narcotics and brutal sexual behaviour. Now, Kent F. Schull argues that these prisons were actually a site of immense reform and contestation during the 19th century. It was within these prisons' walls that many of the pressing questions of Ottoman modernity were worked out; questions of administrative centralisation, Islamic criminal law and punishment, gender and childhood, prisoner rehabilitation, bureaucracy, identity and social engineering. By juxtaposing them with the reality of prison life, Schull investigates how state-mandated reforms affected the lives of local prison officials and inmates. He shows how these individuals actively conformed to, contested and manipulated new penal policies and practices for their own benefit.
Prisons --- History --- Dungeons --- Gaols --- Penitentiaries --- Correctional institutions --- Imprisonment --- Prison-industrial complex --- Prisons - Turkey - History - 20th century --- Prisons - Turkey - History - 19th century --- civilisation --- penal reform --- Ottoman Empire --- Ottoman prisons --- Turkish prisons --- Middle East history --- defensive modernisation --- Istanbul --- Sharia
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"Loin d'être limitée aux barbelés des camps ou aux frontières d'un seul pays, la détention des militaires allemands demeure un aspect méconnu dans le contexte particulier des relations triangulaires entre Ottawa, Washington et Londres. C'est dans cette optique que l'ouvrage Comment traiter les "soldats d'Hitler" ? explore la dynamique politique établie entre les autorités canadiennes, américaines et britanniques à l'égard du traitement des prisonniers de guerre allemands. Au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, ces forces alliées détiennent quelque 600 000 "soldats d'Hitler" sur leur territoire respectif. Bien que gérées par chaque État, ces opérations d'incarcération soulèvent plusieurs enjeux associés à la coopération interalliée. Cette analyse détaillée compare le régime de captivité développé par chaque gouvernement selon ses prérogatives nationales et fait état d'importantes divergences entre les trois Alliés de l'Atlantique Nord dans la prise en charge de ces soldats ennemis. Jean-Michel Turcotte fait le bilan des politiques respectives et communes de ces autorités qui résultent de la participation à des projets conjoints, de rencontres périodiques visant à mieux coordonner leurs actions, de la consultation et de la correspondance les uns avec les autres, des échanges sur les problèmes liés à la détention de guerre et aux solutions apportées. Il présente également le positionnement des états concernant la Convention de Genève de 1929, la mise au travail des détenus et le programme de dénazification. Les conditions de la captivité des soldats allemands sont donc le résultat d'une influence mutuelle, entre les trois principales puissances détentrices sur le front Ouest, issue de l'expérience de chacun. Suivant cet argument, l'auteur met en lumière le rôle déterminant qu'occupe le Canada au sein des Alliés à cette époque."--
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