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  • POPULISM, PUNISHMENT AND THE THREAT TO DEMOCRATIC ORDER
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    POPULISM, PUNISHMENT AND THE THREAT TO DEMOCRATIC ORDER
    JOHN PRATT
    This book traces the rise of contemporary populism in Western democracies, marked by the return of would-be 'strong men' politicians. It seeks to make sense of the nature, origins, and consequences of their ascendancy—as expressed, for example, in the startling rise of the social movement surrounding Trump in the US, Brexit in the UK and the remarkable spread of ideologies that...

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  • CONTRASTS IN PUNISHMENT
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    CONTRASTS IN PUNISHMENT
    JOHN PRATT / ANNA ERIKSSON
    Why do some modern societies punish their offenders differently to others? Why are some more punitive and others more tolerant in their approach to offending and how can these differences be explained? Based on extensive historical analysis and fieldwork in the penal systems of England, Australia and New Zealand on the one hand and Finland, Norway and Sweden on the other, this ...

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  • THE NEW PUNITIVENESS
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    THE NEW PUNITIVENESS
    JOHN PRATT
    Throughout much of the western world more and more people are being sent to prison, one of a number of changes inspired by a 'new punitiveness' in penal and political affairs. This book seeks to understand these developments, bringing together leading authorities in the field to provide a wide-ranging analysis of new penal trends, compare the development of differing patterns o...

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  • CRIME, TRUTH AND JUSTICE
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    CRIME, TRUTH AND JUSTICE
    GILLIGAN, GEORGE / PRATT, JOHN
    This book is concerned to analyse the production of criminological knowledge, with particular reference to one of the most important institutions in the western world involved in this -the official inquiry. The core focus of this book is thus to investigate the structures and processes of official discourse, and the ways in which this produces knowledge on crime and justice - a...

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  • PENAL POPULISM
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    PENAL POPULISM
    JOHN PRATT
    Expertly drawing on international examples and existing literature, Penal Populism closes a gap in the field of criminology. In this fascinating expose of current crime policy John Pratt examines the role played by penal populism on trends in contemporary penal policy. Penal populism is associated with the public's decline of deference to the criminal justice establishment amid...

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  • UNDERSTANDING MODERN SOCIOLOGY
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    UNDERSTANDING MODERN SOCIOLOGY
    WES SHARROCK / JOHN A HUGHES / ALAN PRATT
    From the team that brought you the bestselling Understanding Classical Sociology (SAGE Publications, 1995), we now have a companion volume dealing with the modern period of social theory. An introductory chapter situates the reader in the main changes in society and sociology following the classic period. This is then followed by separate chapters giving a detailed account of f...

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  • PUNISHMENT AND CIVILIZATION
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    PUNISHMENT AND CIVILIZATION
    JOHN PRATT
    `A lucid and fascinating account of how society initially comes to be viewed as ′civilized′ on the basis of how it punishes its offenders, and the various numances and contradictions that form the backdrop to that ′civilization′ prior to 1970 and the unraveling of that process thereafter. ...He [Pratt] has at the very least broadened the boundaries of the debate about the histo...

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  • GOD AND DREAMS
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    GOD AND DREAMS
    JOHN PRATT BINGHAM
    At one time when an individual wanted a direct, personal experience of God that person turned to his or her dreams. The early third century Christian defender of the faith, Tertullian, observed, "Is it not known to all people that the dream is the most usual way that God reveals himself to man?" Yet by the eleventh century, King William II of England states, "They are not good ...

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