Table of Contents

Foreword - David Downes
PART ONE: ABOUT COMPARATIVE PENOLOGY
Introducing Comparative Penology
PENAL SYSTEMS IN CRISIS?
Globalized Penal Crisis?
The United States of America
Law and Order Ideology, Hyperincarceration and Looming Crisis
England and Wales
Stop-Go and the Upwards Zig-Zag
Australia and New Zealand
Neo-Liberal Punitiveness Down Under
South Africa
The Transition From Apartheid
Germany
Archetypal Corporatism
The Netherlands
A Beacon of Tolerance Dimmed
France and Italy
Corporatism and Catholicism
Sweden and Finland
Nordic Social Democracy
Japan
Iron Fist in a Velvet Penal Glove
PART TWO: PATTERNS OF PENALITY
Comparative Youth Justice
Neo-Liberal Youth Justice Systems
Youth Justice Systems: Corporatist Variants
General Patterns in Youth Justice?
Prison Privatization
PART THREE: IN CONCLUSION
′A Boot Stamping on a Human Face Forever?′

About the Author

Michael Cavadino, who is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Central Lancashire, is an internationally known author and researcher in the fields of penology (the study of punishment) and mental health law. He is co-author of the leading textbook on the penal system of England and Wales (M Cavadino, J Dignan and G Mair, The Penal System: An Introduction, 5th ed., Sage Publications 2013). His other works include Mental Health Law in Context: Doctors′ Orders? (Dartmouth, 1989) and M Cavadino and J Dignan, Penal Systems: A Comparative Approach (Sage Publications, 2006).

Reviews

′Cavadino and Dignan′s Penal Systems: A Comparative Approach looks across national boundaries to see how penal systems differ and why. It is hands-down the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the subject and should become a staple textbook for use in law and social science courses on comparative penal policy and practice′ - Michael H. Tonry, University of Minnesota ′This book is an important addition to the literature on punishment. It is a highly readable and very well researched overview of some of the major differences in punitiveness between neo-liberal, corporatist and social democratic countries… This is a major contribution to comparative penology by two of the leading authors in this field′ - Alison Liebling, Director of the Prisons Research Centre, UK