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National Building and Social Control: Observations from Ivory Coast and Tanzania, 1986

Crime control is but one of many areas of life where governments attempt to influence the lives of their citizens through formal state institutions. Within the context of Third World countries, the ‘reality’ of government as nation is something which must be tested if we are to interpret more accurately comparative crime and crime control information. Utilizing Eckstein’s distinction between… Read more →

The Pen and the Pendulum: Finding Our Way to the Future of Incarceration – 1995

This Chapter in Crime and Justice in the Year 2010 (published in 1995) explores the dynamics of the dialectic of the purposes and nature of imprisonment in the United States in an effort to predict (in 1995) what would be happening with the internal prison life and policy related to internal prison life (not the use of incarceration and prison… Read more →