Prisons in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century (eBook)

A Human Dumping Ground

Marten W. Brienen, Jonathan D. Rosen (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
284 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9780739191361 (ISBN)

Infos

This book analyzes the prison systems in the Americas in the twenty-first century. Leading experts discuss the state of the prison systems in their respective countries, focusing on trends of overcrowding, high recidivism rates, harsh drug laws, human rights, and the relationship between prisons, drug trafficking, and organized crime.

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This volume on penitentiary systems in the Americas offers a long-overdue look at the prisons that exist at the forefront of the ongoing struggle against drugs and violence throughout North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. From Haiti to Bolivia, the authors examine the conditions in these systems, and allow several common themes to emerge, including the alarming prevalence of lengthy pre-trial detention and the often abysmal living conditions in these institutions. Taken together, this comprises the first comparative overview of the use and abuse of prisons in the Americas.

Autor

Jonathan D. Rosen is research professor at the Institute of International Studies at the Universidad del Mar, Mexico. Marten Brienen teaches political science at Oklahoma State University.

Inhalt

Ch 1: General Trends in Prisons in the Americas, Astrid Arrarás and Emily D. Bello-PardoNorth AmericaCh 2. Broken Systems: Prisons and Prison Gangs in California and the United States, Susan Phillips and Jonathan D. RosenCh 3: The Penitentiary System in Mexico: An Institution Permeated by Corruption and Controlled by Organized Crime, Roberto Zepeda MartínezCentral AmericaCh 4: Drugs, Crime, and Prisons in Guatemala, Tamara Rice LaveThe CaribbeanCh 5: Haiti: Prisons, Organized Crime, and Drug Trafficking, Christa L. Remington & Jean-Claude Garcia-ZamorCh 6: Retribution vs. Reintegration: The Trinidad and Tobago Reality, Dianne Williams and Randy SeepersadThe Andean RegionCh 7: An Organized Chaos: Venezuela’s Prison Crisis, Brian Fonseca and Pamela PameláCh 8: Drugs and Prisons: the Slippery Road to the Criminalization of Drugs in Ecuador, Adrián Bonilla and Nashira ChavezCh 9: A Special Kind of Hell: The Bolivian Penal, System Marten W. BrienenCh 10: Drugs and the Prison Crisis in Peru, Lucía Dammert and Manuel Dammert GuardiaThe Southern ConeCh 11: Beyond Overcrowding: the Decline of the Brazilian Penitentiary System, Marcelo Rocha e Silva ZorovichCh 12: The Drug-Crime-Prison Nexus: What the U. S. Experience Suggests to Argentina, Khatchik DerGhougassian and Sebastián CutronaAn International SolutionCh 13: Prison Reform: An International Solution, W. Andy Knight

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.4.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century
• Co-Autor: Astrid Arraras, Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor, Manuel Dammert Guardia, W. Andy Knight, Tamara Rice Lave, Roberto Zepeda Martinez, Pamela Pamela, Susan Phillips, Christa L. Remington, Jonathan D. Rosen, Randy Seepersad, Emily D. Bello-Pardo, Dianne Williams, Marcelo Rocha e Silva Zorovich, Adrian Bonilla, Marten W. Brienen, Nashira Chavez, Sebastian A. Cutrona, Lucia Dammert, Khatchik DerGhougassian, Brian Fonseca
• Zusatzinfo: 26 Illustrations including: - 3 Charts; - 12 Tables; - 11 Graphs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Central America • Criminology • Drugs and Crime • Gangs • North America • Prisons • security studies • South America
• ISBN-13: 9780739191361 / 9780739191361