Unlikely downsizers: The prison service's role in reversing mass incarceration in Kazakhstan

Since 2000, the prison rate has declined significantly in Kazakhstan. This article demonstrates that the Kazakhstani prison service, counterintuitively, became a key advocate of prison downsizing owing to a coalescence of norms and incentives in the 1980s and 1990s. In the process, the prison servic...

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Authors: Slade, Gavin 1980- (Author) ; Trochev, Alexei 1972- (Author) ; Piacentini, Laura (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Theoretical criminology
Year: 2023, Volume: 27, Issue: 4, Pages: 573-596
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Post-Soviet
Kazakhstan
prison service
agonist
Downsizing
prison rates