Penal Institutions is a formal social system comprising organized facilities and legal mechanisms established by the state to impose, administer, and enforce punitive sanctions on individuals convicted of criminal offenses, distinguished from other forms of social control by their reliance on incarceration, structured discipline, and the legal authority to deprive individuals of liberty as a mode of punishment.
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`Governmentality' and the Problem of Crime:
David Garland · Theoretical Criminology · 1997 · 610 citations
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University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
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17 publications
877 citations
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, United States
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13 publications
2.3K citations
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
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12 publications
953 citations
Institute of Criminology
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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12 publications
650 citations
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
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10 publications
519 citations
London School of Economics and Political Science
London, United Kingdom
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10 publications
643 citations
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, United States
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12 publications
666 citations
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, United Kingdom
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9 publications
461 citations
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- Punishment & Society
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- Theoretical Criminology
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- Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 18 publications · 1.4K citations
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- Crime and Justice
CRIMEJ · 15 publications · 2.2K citations
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- The British Journal of Criminology
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