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Venezuela, Corrections in (2017)
Book Chapter

The correctional system of Venezuela is best understood as a system of internment. The inmate population doubled between 2008 and 2015, and overcrowding is at 270%. Remand and sentenced inmates are usually not segregated and most centers are in a ver... Read More about Venezuela, Corrections in.

Venezuela (2010)
Book Chapter

Provides an overview of the criminal justice system in Venezuela.

Venezuela (2009)
Book Chapter

Provides an overview of the administration and key findings of the Second International Self-Report Survey conducted in Venezuela in 2006. The sample comprised 2,395 secondary school students selected in the cities of Caracas and Mérida and in three... Read More about Venezuela.

Prisiones e Internados: Una Comparación de los Establecimientos Penales en América del Norte y América Latina. (Imprisonment and Internment: Comparing Penal Facilities in the Americas) (2009)
Book Chapter

Recent references to the “warehouse prison” in the United States and the “prisión-depósito” in Latin America seem to indicate that penal confinement in the Western Hemisphere has converged on a similar model. However, this article suggests otherwise.... Read More about Prisiones e Internados: Una Comparación de los Establecimientos Penales en América del Norte y América Latina. (Imprisonment and Internment: Comparing Penal Facilities in the Americas).

Offender morality and the criminal event (2001)
Book Chapter
Birkbeck, C., & Gabaldon, L. (2001). Offender morality and the criminal event. In R. Meier, L. Kennedy, & V. Sacco (Eds.), The process and structure of crime: criminal events and crime ananlysis (95-124). Transaction Publishers