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1. Official Discourse (Routledge Revivals)

   On Discourse Analysis, Government Publications, Ideology and the State

   By Frank Burton, Pat Carlen

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1979, Official Discourse is an unofficial report of theoretical investigations into a specific state of practice- the publication of reports of official inquiries into law, order and justice issues. The commissions, tribunals and committees of inquiry scrutinized in this book...

   Published November 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. Imaginary Penalities

   Edited by Pat Carlen

   This book is concerned to explore the idea of imaginary penalities and to understand why the management of criminal justice and criminal justice systems has so often reached crisis point. Its underlying theme is that when political strategies of punitive populism are combined with managerialist...

   Published October 16th 2008 by Willan
3. Analysing Women's Imprisonment

   By Pat Carlen, Anne Worrall

   In both the UK and the rest of the world there have been rapid increases in the numbers of women in prison, which has led to an acceleration of interest in women's crimes and the social control of women, and women's experience of both prison and the criminal justice system is very different to...

   Published April 30th 2004 by Willan
4. Women and Punishment

   Edited by Pat Carlen

   In the last decade there has been growing international concern about the increasing numbers of women in prison, the effects that imprisonment has on their children, the realisation that gaoled women have different criminal profiles and rehabilitative needs to male prisoners, and the seeming...

   Published March 31st 2002 by Willan