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"With contributions from over 60 leading experts in the field, The Oxford Handbook of Criminology is the definitive guide to the discipline providing an authoritative and outstanding collection of chapters on the key topics studied on criminology courses. The Handbook has shaped the study of criminology for over two decades and, with this new edition, continues to be indispensable to students, academics, and professionals alike. Each chapter details relevant theory, recent research, policy developments, and current debates. Extensive references aid further research."

Criminology --- Criminologie

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This is a major study that draws directly on the experiences of prisoners and staff, tracing the recent history of the problem and providing a theoretical discussion of the nature and causes of suicide in prison.

Prisoners --- Suicide --- Killing oneself --- Self-killing --- Death --- Right to die --- Convicts --- Correctional institutions --- Imprisoned persons --- Incarcerated persons --- Prison inmates --- Inmates of institutions --- Persons --- Suicidal behavior --- Causes --- Inmates

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Criminal justice, Administration of --- Law enforcement --- Social policy --- Legitimacy of governments --- Political aspects --- Public opinion --- Governments, Legitimacy of --- Legitimacy (Constitutional law) --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Revolutions --- Sovereignty --- State, The --- General will --- Political stability --- Regime change --- Enforcement of law --- Administration of criminal justice --- Justice, Administration of --- Crime --- Criminal law --- Criminals --- Law and legislation --- Policing

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BPB0612 --- 343.8 --- 343.8 Gevangenisbeleid. Strafuitvoering. Strafvoltrekking. Commissie van het gevangeniswezen --- Gevangenisbeleid. Strafuitvoering. Strafvoltrekking. Commissie van het gevangeniswezen --- Prison administration --- Prisoners --- Prisons --- Quality of life --- Care --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Life, Quality of --- Economic history --- Human ecology --- Life --- Social history --- Basic needs --- Human comfort --- Social accounting --- Work-life balance --- Dungeons --- Gaols --- Penitentiaries --- Correctional institutions --- Imprisonment --- Prison-industrial complex --- Convicts --- Imprisoned persons --- Incarcerated persons --- Prison inmates --- Inmates of institutions --- Inmates --- Great Britain --- Moral conditions. --- Persons

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As the number of prisoners in the UK, USA and elsewhere continues to rise, so have concerns risen about the damaging short term and long term effects this has on prisoners. This book brings together a group of leading authorities in this field, both academics and practitioners, to address the complex issues this has raised, to assess the implications and results of research in this field, and to suggest ways of mitigating the often devastating personal and psychological consequences of imprisonment.

Imprisonment --- Confinement --- Incarceration --- Corrections --- Detention of persons --- Punishment --- Prison-industrial complex --- Prisons --- Psychological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Emprisonnement --- Aspect psychologique. --- Aspect social. --- School-to-prison pipeline