• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The politics of crime control : essays in honour of David Downes
  • Contributor: Downes, David [Contributor]; Newburn, Tim [Contributor]; Rock, Paul Elliott [Contributor]
  • Published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009
  • Published in: Clarendon studies in criminology
  • Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 333 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199565955.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780191701948; 0191701947
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  • Keywords: Crime prevention Great Britain ; Corrections Great Britain
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
  • Description: Contributions cover such subjects as criminological theory and the new East End of London, the practice of comparative criminology including an analysis of variations in penal cultures within the US, restorative justice in Colombia, New Labour's politics and policy in relation to dangerous personality-disordered offenders, the legal construction of torture, and the future for a social democratic criminology.