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African Penal Systems.

American Sociological Review, 1970
Leonard C. Kercher, Alan Milner
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Women and the penal system

1996
Prison is still central to our system for dealing with offenders. Imprisonment has historically functioned in three ways: custodially to hold prisoners (and some witnesses) awaiting trial, coercively — for example, to secure repayment of a debt — and penally as a punishment.
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Political economy and penal systems

2015
Even in our supposedly ‘globalized’ world, countries differ from each other in their practices of punishment. This is perhaps most obvious when comparing modes of punishment (the differing methods whereby punishment is inflicted): the most dramatic example of penal difference in the modern world is surely the contrast between the enthusiastic ...
Michael Cavadino, James Dignan
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The Penal System

2023
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World Penal Systems.

American Sociological Review, 1945
Charles N. Burrows, Negley K. Teeters
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Women in the Penal System

2008
‘It is not always realised that the prison system was made by the people of this country and that, if anything is amiss with it, we citizens and voters are accountable, not those who bear the burden of putting our laws into operation.’1 These words of a former Lady Inspector of Prisons published in 1922 reminded readers that the country’s penal system ...
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Penal Welfare or Penal Sovereignty? A Political Sociology of Recent Formalization of Chinese Community Corrections

Punishment and Society, 2022
Jize Jiang
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The American Penal System

2022
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A failed penal system

2021
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Slavery and the Penal System

The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-), 1977
Peter P. Lejins, J. Thorsten Sellin
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