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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781442682023
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMcMahon, Maeve
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Persistent Prison? :
_bRethinking Decarceration and Penal Reform /
_cMaeve McMahon.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[1992]
264 4 _c©1989
300 _a1 online resource (274 p.)
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520 _aThe Prison system is widely believed to be an immutable element of contemporary society. Many criminologists and sociologists of deviance believe that decarceration movements have failed to yield progressive reform, and that feasible alternatives to the prison system do not exist. Maeve McMahon challenges these views. Reconstructing the emergence of critical perspectives on decarceration, she examines analytical and empirical problems in the research. She also points out how indicators of community programs and other penalties serving as alternatives to prison have typically been overshadowed through critical focus on their effects in 'widening the net' of control. McMahon presents a detailed analysis of decreasing imprisonment, and of the part played by alternatives in this, during the postwar period in Ontario. Drawing from extensive documentary research, and from interviews with former correctional officials, she charts the changing climates of opinions, and socio-economic factors, which facilitated decarceration. By situating her analysis in the context of theoretical and political arguments about the possibility of decarceration, McMahon provides in her work a stimulus to the development of progressive penal politics not just in Canada, but in all western countries.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aCorrectional law
_zOntario.
650 0 _aCriminal justice, Administration of
_zOntario.
650 0 _aImprisonment
_zOntario.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
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