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Offender Supervision in Europe
. Ed(S): McNeill, Fergus; Beyens, Kristel
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Description for Offender Supervision in Europe
Hardback. For the last thirty years or so, penal theorists and researchers have been preoccupied with mass incarceration. This book focuses on the neglected area of offender supervision which has developed rapidly in scale, distribution and intensity in recent years, providing a unique insight into offender supervision in the European community. Editor(s): McNeill, Fergus; Beyens, Kristel. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JKVP; JKVQ1; JKVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
Offender supervision in Europe has developed rapidly in scale, distribution and intensity in recent years. However, the emergence of mass supervision in the community has largely escaped the attention of legal scholars and social scientists more concerned with the mass incarceration reflected in prison growth. As well as representing an important analytical lacuna for penology in general and comparative criminal justice in particular, the neglect of supervision means that research has not delivered the knowledge that is urgently required to engage with political, policy and practice communities grappling with delivering justice efficiently and effectively in fiscally straitened times, and with ... Read more
Offender supervision in Europe has developed rapidly in scale, distribution and intensity in recent years. However, the emergence of mass supervision in the community has largely escaped the attention of legal scholars and social scientists more concerned with the mass incarceration reflected in prison growth. As well as representing an important analytical lacuna for penology in general and comparative criminal justice in particular, the neglect of supervision means that research has not delivered the knowledge that is urgently required to engage with political, policy and practice communities grappling with delivering justice efficiently and effectively in fiscally straitened times, and with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
191
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137379177
SKU
V9781137379177
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About . Ed(S): McNeill, Fergus; Beyens, Kristel
Miranda Boone, University of Groningen and University of Utrecht, the Netherlands Ioan Durnescu, University of Bucharest, Romania Christina Enengl, University of Vienna, Austria Christian Grafl, University of Vienna, Austria Martine Herzog-Evans, Reims University, France Elena Larrauri, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Christine Morgenstern, University of Greifswald, Germany Gwen Robinson, University of Sheffield, UK Kerstin Svensson, Lund University, Sweden
Reviews for Offender Supervision in Europe
"The most extensive analysis yet of mass supervision as it is emerging Europe, from a collaborative network of some of the regions best criminologists. This is our leading source on the global trend that may be replacing mass incarceration" - Jonathan Simon, Berkeley Law, University of California, USA "Offender Supervision in Europe is a stimulating and thought-provoking ... Read more