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The book examines the prison experience throughout the world, considers international efforts to regulate the system, and asks whether a better answer should be found.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49582269628689,"sku":"GOR003905157","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51244269568273,"sku":"GOR002447158","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0140233091.jpg?v=1751430659"},{"product_id":"creating-criminals-book-vivien-stern-9781842775394","title":"Creating Criminals","description":"Market society is producing more crime around the world. More acts are being defined as crimes. Ever increasing numbers of people are classified as criminals and more are being locked up in prison. With globalization, the crime and punishment problem is no longer insulated from pressures beyond national borders. The rich may retreat behind their expensive security into gated communities, but the poor are more and more at the mercy of criminals and corrupt policing. Yet, Vivien Stern argues, the trends towards more criminalization and more imprisonment are not making for more effective crime control or safer communities.   This important book demonstrates that the prospects for the future are serious unless NGOs and reformers join in a new movement for reform that gives more control of justice policy back to communities and neighbourhoods.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49624392270097,"sku":"GOR013608377","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49631179374865,"sku":"GOR004664000","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49648511189265,"sku":"GOR012573050","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50401193328913,"sku":"CIN1842775391G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52331462557969,"sku":"NLS9781842775394","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1842775391.jpg?v=1751464398"},{"product_id":"sin-against-future-book-stern-9781555533618","title":"Sin against Future","description":"Vivien Stern contends that prisons, a mainstay of punishment, are an anachronistic and probably counterproductive system for dealing with rising crime rates. 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Instead of locking up yet more people, she calls for a practical and positive system that reconciles and heals the breaches caused by crime. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis hard-hitting, comparative study of imprisonment exposes the waste, the horror, and the heroism of the growing worldwide business of incarceration.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50296493506833,"sku":"CIN1555533612G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1555533612.jpg?v=1750894858"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-vivien-stern.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}