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Penology

The science of prison administration and rehabilitation of criminals.

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However, as critical penologists would object, whenever the effectiveness of punishment is advocated--even under the impulse to target "new" powerful offenders--the punitive system as a whole always receives legitimation and the "old" conventional, powerless offenders are invariably targeted.
Review of Pearce and Tombs, Toxic Capitalism
Nigel Walker describes this book as |an attempt to promote the amphibian way': that is, to lure philosophers on to dry land and penologists into deep water.
Why Punish?
There were utilitarian penologists before Beccaria and Bentham: Aquinas was one (of sorts: secular penalties should aim at utility, God's at retributive justice); Plato was another, and he in turn was influenced by Protagoras.
Plato's Penal Code: Tradition, Controversy, and Reform in Greek Penology
Nigel Walker describes this book as 'an attempt to promote the amphibian way': that is, to lure philosophers on to dry land and penologists into deep water.
Why Punish?
In fact, however, a number of different groups--including prosecutors, penologists, local party officials, and the general public--began to lobby against the "excesses," "unwarranted privileges," and "liberalism" enjoyed by prisoners.
"The camp is not a resort": the campaign against privileges in the Soviet Gulag, 1957-61
It was BG Crowder who, after lengthy consultation with sociologists and penologists, convinced the Army--and the Congress--to create the U.S.
The greatest judge advocate in history? The extraordinary life of Major General Enoch H. Crowder (1859-1932)
(213.) Penologists agree that our incapacitation policy has reduced the crime rate, but they disagree over the amount.
Public choice theory and overcriminalization
However, many of the solutions require the efforts of competent and experienced psychologists, social workers, penologists, probation officers, law enforcers, prosecutors, defense lawyers, judges, and legislators.
Colleagues debate Denning's comments
Mainstream penologists are beginning to argue that mass imprisonment has been a failure, and one with devastating consequences.
"Punishment's twin": theorizing prisoner reentry for a politics of abolition
With NIBRS, lawmakers, academicians, sociologists, penologists, and the American public can now better assess the Nation's crime problem by using the extensive data supplied by the law enforcement community.
UCR's blueprint for the future
records of insane asylums, universities, and churches; articles in medical, psychiatric, psychological, and legal journals; legal appeals; court records; periodicals, ephemeral handouts and other publications of the early American homosexual emancipation movement; reports of local, city, and state governments, and of federal government; reports of travellers, missionaries, explorers, anthropologists, sociologists, penologists; passing references in histories, biographies, autobiographies, diaries; artworks (Black blues, cowboy poems, engravings, photographs); and literary works (novels, short stories, poetry, plays).
'Feloniously, wickedly and against the order of nature': a research agenda for gay studies in Queensland
What does make sense is something penologists have understood for years.
Righting sentences: let's get smart about who should - and shouldn't - be in jail

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