In this third edition the author does a quite memorable job as he documents the enormous growth in the number of prisoners in recent years by giving us a global perspective to incarceration and by comparing how unequal imprisonment rates between likely European countries are. He then particularly turns his attention to Russia and the US in chapters 6 and 7. According …show more content…
Crime Control As Industry warns us about the wicked growth of the US imprisonment levels, and the threats that this trend can have around the world if it continues to develop. A good way of stopping this from happening is to have a deeper look into the way the penal systems work and in particular to highlight the differences between political processes and