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Title Prisons in the Americas in the twenty first century : human dumping ground / edited by Jonathan D. Rosen and Marten W. Brienen.

Publication Info. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource.
Series Security in the Americas in the twenty-first century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents General trends of prisons in the Americas / Astrid Arraŕás and Emily D. Bello-Pardo -- Broken systems: prisons and prison gangs in California and the United States / Susan A. Phillips and Jonathan D. Rosen -- The penitentiary system in Mexico: an institution permeated by corruption and controlled by organized crime / Roberto Zepeda Martinez -- Drugs, crime and prisons in Guatemala / Tamara Rice Lave -- Haiti: prisons, organized crime, and drug trafficking / Christa L. Remington and Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor -- Retribution vs. reintegration: the Trinidad and Tobago reality / Dianne Williams and Randy Seepersad -- Organized chaos: Venezuela's prison crisis / Brian Fonseca and Pamela Pamelá -- Drugs and prisons: the slippery road to the criminalization of drugs in Ecuador / Adrián Bonilla and Nashira Chávez -- A special kind of hell: the Bolivian penal system / Marten W. Brienen -- Drugs and the prison crisis in Peru / Lucía Dammert and Manuel Dammert G. -- Beyond overcrowding: the decline of the Brazilian penitentiary system / Marcelo Rocha e Silva Zorovich -- The drug-crime-prison nexus: what the U.S. experience suggests for Argentina / Khatchik DerGhougassian and Sebastián A. Cutrona -- Prison reform: an international solution / W. Andy Knight.
Note Print version record.
Subject Prisons -- America.
Imprisonment -- America.
Corrections -- America.
Corrections. (OCoLC)fst00880260
Imprisonment. (OCoLC)fst00968277
Prisons. (OCoLC)fst01077326
America. (OCoLC)fst01239786
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Rosen, Jonathan D.
Brienen, Marten W.
Other Form: Print version: Prisons in the Americas in the twenty first century 9780739191354 (DLC) 2015001564 (OCoLC)898158432
ISBN 9780739191361 (electronic bk.)
0739191365 (electronic bk.)
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