The Prisoners' Dilemma : Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies.

An examination of the institutional preconditions for a tolerant criminal justice system.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lacey, Nicola
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Series:	Hamlyn lectures.
Subjects:	Imprisonment. Imprisonment > Great Britain. Imprisonment > United States. Imprisonment > Europe, Western. Criminal justice, Administration of. Criminal justice, Administration of > Great Britain. Criminal justice, Administration of > United States. Criminal justice, Administration of > Europe, Western. imprisonment.
Online Access:	Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; The Hamlyn Trust; The Hamlyn Lectures; Figures; Preface; Part I: Punishment in contemporary democracies; 1 'Penal populism' in comparative perspective; 2 Explaining penal tolerance and severity: criminal justice in the perspective of political economy; Part II: Prospects for the future: escaping the prisoners' dilemma; 3 Inclusion and exclusion in a globalising world: is penal moderation in co-ordinated market economies under threat?; 4 Confronting the prisoners' dilemma: the room for policy manoeuvre in liberal market economies; Bibliography.
Index.

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