Prisons in the Americas in the twenty first century : a human dumping ground /
Prisons in the Americas in the twenty first century : a human dumping ground /
edited by Jonathan D. Rosen and Marten W. Brienen.
- Lanham : Lexington Books, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages).
- Security in the Americas in the twenty-first century .
Includes bibliographies and index.
General trends of prisons in the Americas / Broken systems: prisons and prison gangs in California and the United States / The penitentiary system in Mexico: an institution permeated by corruption and controlled by organized crime / Drugs, crime and prisons in Guatemala / Haiti: prisons, organized crime, and drug trafficking / Retribution vs. reintegration: the Trinidad and Tobago reality / Organized chaos: Venezuela's prison crisis / Drugs and prisons: the slippery road to the criminalization of drugs in Ecuador / A special kind of hell: the Bolivian penal system / Drugs and the prison crisis in Peru / Beyond overcrowding: the decline of the Brazilian penitentiary system / The drug-crime-prison nexus: what the U.S. experience suggests for Argentina / Prison reform: an international solution / Astrid Arrará́s and Emily D. Bello-Pardo -- Susan A. Phillips and Jonathan D. Rosen -- Roberto Zepeda Martinez -- Tamara Rice Lave -- Christa L. Remington and Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor -- Dianne Williams and Randy Seepersad -- Brian Fonseca and Pamela Pamelá -- Adrián Bonilla and Nashira Chávez -- Marten W. Brienen -- Lucía Dammert and Manuel Dammert G. -- Marcelo Rocha e Silva Zorovich -- Khatchik DerGhougassian and Sebastián A. Cutrona -- W. Andy Knight.
9780739191361 9780739191354
2021676002
017185628 Uk
Prisons--America.
Imprisonment--America.
Corrections--America.
Electronic Books.
HV8501 / .P757 2015
Includes bibliographies and index.
General trends of prisons in the Americas / Broken systems: prisons and prison gangs in California and the United States / The penitentiary system in Mexico: an institution permeated by corruption and controlled by organized crime / Drugs, crime and prisons in Guatemala / Haiti: prisons, organized crime, and drug trafficking / Retribution vs. reintegration: the Trinidad and Tobago reality / Organized chaos: Venezuela's prison crisis / Drugs and prisons: the slippery road to the criminalization of drugs in Ecuador / A special kind of hell: the Bolivian penal system / Drugs and the prison crisis in Peru / Beyond overcrowding: the decline of the Brazilian penitentiary system / The drug-crime-prison nexus: what the U.S. experience suggests for Argentina / Prison reform: an international solution / Astrid Arrará́s and Emily D. Bello-Pardo -- Susan A. Phillips and Jonathan D. Rosen -- Roberto Zepeda Martinez -- Tamara Rice Lave -- Christa L. Remington and Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor -- Dianne Williams and Randy Seepersad -- Brian Fonseca and Pamela Pamelá -- Adrián Bonilla and Nashira Chávez -- Marten W. Brienen -- Lucía Dammert and Manuel Dammert G. -- Marcelo Rocha e Silva Zorovich -- Khatchik DerGhougassian and Sebastián A. Cutrona -- W. Andy Knight.
9780739191361 9780739191354
2021676002
017185628 Uk
Prisons--America.
Imprisonment--America.
Corrections--America.
Electronic Books.
HV8501 / .P757 2015