Prisons in the Americas in the twenty first century : a human dumping ground / edited by Jonathan D. Rosen and Marten W. Brienen.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Rosen, Jonathan D., Brienen, Marten W.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
Series:	Security in the Americas in the twenty-first century.
Subjects:	Prisons > America. Imprisonment > America. Corrections > America. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology. Corrections Imprisonment Prisons America
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

General trends of prisons in the Americas / Astrid Arrará́s and Emily D. Bello-Pardo
Broken systems: prisons and prison gangs in California and the United States / Susan A. Phillips and Jonathan D. Rosen
The penitentiary system in Mexico: an institution permeated by corruption and controlled by organized crime / Roberto Zepeda Martinez
Drugs, crime and prisons in Guatemala / Tamara Rice Lave
Haiti: prisons, organized crime, and drug trafficking / Christa L. Remington and Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor
Retribution vs. reintegration: the Trinidad and Tobago reality / Dianne Williams and Randy Seepersad
Organized chaos: Venezuela's prison crisis / Brian Fonseca and Pamela Pamelá
Drugs and prisons: the slippery road to the criminalization of drugs in Ecuador / Adrián Bonilla and Nashira Chávez
A special kind of hell: the Bolivian penal system / Marten W. Brienen
Drugs and the prison crisis in Peru / Lucía Dammert and Manuel Dammert G.
Beyond overcrowding: the decline of the Brazilian penitentiary system / Marcelo Rocha e Silva Zorovich
The drug-crime-prison nexus: what the U.S. experience suggests for Argentina / Khatchik DerGhougassian and Sebastián A. Cutrona
Prison reform: an international solution / W. Andy Knight.

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