Slide 1 ___________________________________
The Prison System
Criminology, Sentencing and the Penal ___________________________________
System
Professor Alison Liebling
Prisons Research Centre, Institute of
Criminology
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Cambridge, UK Professor Alison Liebling
(Lecture 1)
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Slide 2 3 lectures: from disorder, to order and back again .. ___________________________________
1. The recent history, use, organisation ___________________________________
and aims of imprisonment, and
some current difficulties ..
2. Understanding prisons: legitimacy,
moral climates, and outcomes ___________________________________
3. Privatisation and competition
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Slide 3 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky ___________________________________
• “The degree of civilization in a society can be
judged by entering its prisons.” ___________________________________
• The House of the Dead (1862; translation by
Constance Garnett)
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• “The best way to keep a prisoner from
escaping is to make sure he never knows
he’s in prison.”
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The Prison System
Criminology, Sentencing and the Penal ___________________________________
System
Professor Alison Liebling
Prisons Research Centre, Institute of
Criminology
___________________________________
Cambridge, UK Professor Alison Liebling
(Lecture 1)
___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
Slide 2 3 lectures: from disorder, to order and back again .. ___________________________________
1. The recent history, use, organisation ___________________________________
and aims of imprisonment, and
some current difficulties ..
2. Understanding prisons: legitimacy,
moral climates, and outcomes ___________________________________
3. Privatisation and competition
___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
Slide 3 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky ___________________________________
• “The degree of civilization in a society can be
judged by entering its prisons.” ___________________________________
• The House of the Dead (1862; translation by
Constance Garnett)
___________________________________
• “The best way to keep a prisoner from
escaping is to make sure he never knows
he’s in prison.”
___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
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