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

A Human Dumping Ground
Redaktion: Rosen, Jonathan D.; Brienen, Marten W.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739191361
• Artikelnr.: 42711725

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Ch 1: General Trends in Prisons in the Americas, Astrid Arrarás and Emily
D. Bello-Pardo North America Ch 2. Broken Systems: Prisons and Prison Gangs
in California and the United States, Susan Phillips and Jonathan D. Rosen
Ch 3: The Penitentiary System in Mexico: An Institution Permeated by
Corruption and Controlled by Organized Crime, Roberto Zepeda Martínez
Central America Ch 4: Drugs, Crime, and Prisons in Guatemala, Tamara Rice
Lave The Caribbean Ch 5: Haiti: Prisons, Organized Crime, and Drug
Trafficking, Christa L. Remington & Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor Ch 6:
Retribution vs. Reintegration: The Trinidad and Tobago Reality, Dianne
Williams and Randy Seepersad The Andean Region Ch 7: An Organized Chaos:
Venezuela's Prison Crisis, Brian Fonseca and Pamela Pamelá Ch 8: Drugs and
Prisons: the Slippery Road to the Criminalization of Drugs in Ecuador,
Adrián Bonilla and Nashira Chavez Ch 9: A Special Kind of Hell: The
Bolivian Penal, System Marten W. Brienen Ch 10: Drugs and the Prison Crisis
in Peru, Lucía Dammert and Manuel Dammert Guardia The Southern Cone Ch 11:
Beyond Overcrowding: the Decline of the Brazilian Penitentiary System,
Marcelo Rocha e Silva Zorovich Ch 12: The Drug-Crime-Prison Nexus: What the
U. S. Experience Suggests to Argentina, Khatchik DerGhougassian and
Sebastián Cutrona An International Solution Ch 13: Prison Reform: An
International Solution, W. Andy Knight