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Prisons and Their Moral Performance

Paperback • 2005 • English

Prisons and Their Moral Performance

By Alison Liebling

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About the book

This book constitutes a critical case study of the modern search for public sector reform. It includes a detailed account of a study aimed at developing a meaningful way of evaluating difficult-to-measure moral dimensions of the quality of prisons. Penal practices, values, and sensibilities have undergone important transformations over the period 1990-2003. Part of this transformation included a serious flirtation with a liberal penal project that went wrong. A significant contributory factor in...Show more

Crime and criminology
Penology and punishment

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ISBN

9780199291489

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

Prisons and Their Moral Performance

Format

Paperback

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