The prisoners' dilemma : political economy and punishment in contemporary democracies / Nicola Lacey.

Over the last two decades, and in the wake of increases in recorded crime and other social changes, British criminal justice policy has become increasingly politicised as an index of governments' competence. New and worrying developments, such as the inexorable rise of the US prison population...

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Main Author:	Lacey, Nicola (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : 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.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511819247
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