RT Book
T1 Prisons and crime in Latin America
A1 Bergman, Marcelo
A2 Fondevila, Gustavo
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1751332349
AB This groundbreaking work examines Latin America's prison crisis and the failure of mass incarceration policies. As crime rates rose over the past few decades, policy makers adopted incarceration as the primary response to public outcry. Yet, as the number of inmates increased, crime rates only continued to grow. Presenting new cross-national data based on extensive surveys of inmates throughout the region, this book explains the transformation of prisons from instruments of incapacitation, deterrence, and rehabilitation to drivers of violence and criminality. Bergman and Fondevila highlight the impacts of internal drug markets and the dramatic increase in the number of imprisoned women. Furthermore, they show how prisons are not isolated from society - they are sites of active criminal networks, with many inmates maintaining fluid criminal connections with the outside world. Rather than reducing crime, prisons have become an integral part of the crime problem in Latin America.
OP 261
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Mar 2021)
CN 364.98
SN 9781108768238
SN 9781108487887
SN 9781108738194
K1 Prisons : Latin America
K1 Crime : Latin America
K1 Criminal justice, Administration of : Latin America
K1 Prisons ; Latin America
K1 Crime ; Latin America
K1 Criminal justice, Administration of ; Latin America
K1 Lateinamerika : Kriminalität : Strafjustiz : Strafvollzug
K1 eBook-Cambridge-Gesamt-EBA-2024
DO 10.1017/9781108768238