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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 2017, Vol. 2017, Vol. 51(3) 471–472 Book Review ! The Author(s) 2017 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0004865817744938 journals.sagepub.com/home/anj Andrew Coyle, Helen Fair, Jessica Jacobson and Roy Walmsley, Imprisonment worldwide: The current situation and an alternative future. Bristol, England: Policy Press, 2016; 112 pp. ISBN 9781447331759, £7.99 pb Reviewed by: Jeyong Jung, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth, England Although the growth of incarceration over the past decades has been discussed around the world, most research on this subject has been conducted in the US. This is mainly because the nation’s prison population outnumbers that of other developed countries. Coyle et al. close this gap in the literature by investigating the topic at a global level. The authors take an ambitious approach by assessing 223 nations around the world based on the World Prison Brief of the Institute for Criminal Policy Research. Considering the difficulty of analysing complex international data, publishing a book of this scope is an accomplishment as well as a valuable addition to current knowledge. In nine chapters, divided into three sections, Imprisonment Worldwide: The Current Situation and an Alternative Future addresses three questions: . Section I:
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Published: Sep 1, 2018
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