Maeve Mcmahon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3951278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maeve Mcmahon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maeve |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmahon |
| SIGNATURE | MCMAHON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
La répression comme entreprise
This paper seeks to contribute to literatures on privatization in criminal justice by commenting on some recent developments - especially in Canada and the USA. The focus is on entrepreneurial aspects of corporate and commercial involvement in privatization, and on how the corporate sector plays a part in creating a demand for its own services. The observations of the author draw not only from research knowledge, but also from her experiences in …
From Punishment to Doing Good
The Persistent Prison? Rethinking Decarceration and Penal Reform
The Prison system is widely believed to be an immutable element of contemporary society. Many criminologists and sociologists of deviance believe that decarceration movements have failed to yield progressive reform, and that feasible alternatives to the prison system do not exist. Maeve McMahon challenges these views. Reconstructing the emergence of critical perspectives on decarceration, she examines analytical and empirical problems in the rese…
The Lithuanian centre for survivors of torture
Interview with Rosa Del Olmo
Contrasts in Tolerance
Net-Widening’
Problematic aspects of the concept of ‘net-widening’ as used in critical analyses of community corrections are documented. Political and analytical rationales for challenging contentions of ‘net-widening’ are advanced. The critical literature yields a political void. The conclusion of positivists that ‘nothing works’ in rehabilitating the recalcitrant offender has merely been transmuted by critical criminologists: ‘nothing works’ in reforming the…
The Persistent Prison?
By situating her analysis in the context of theoretical and political arguments about the possibility of decarceration, McMahon provides in her work a stimulus to the development of progressive penal politics not just in Canada, but in all western countries.
Confronting Crime
Visions of Social Control
Policing Reform
Policing Reform
From Punishment to Doing Good
The Persistent Prison? Rethinking Decarceration and Penal Reform
The Prison system is widely believed to be an immutable element of contemporary society. Many criminologists and sociologists of deviance believe that decarceration movements have failed to yield progressive reform, and that feasible alternatives to the prison system do not exist. Maeve McMahon challenges these views. Reconstructing the emergence of critical perspectives on decarceration, she examines analytical and empirical problems in the rese…
Net-Widening’
Problematic aspects of the concept of ‘net-widening’ as used in critical analyses of community corrections are documented. Political and analytical rationales for challenging contentions of ‘net-widening’ are advanced. The critical literature yields a political void. The conclusion of positivists that ‘nothing works’ in rehabilitating the recalcitrant offender has merely been transmuted by critical criminologists: ‘nothing works’ in reforming the…
La répression comme entreprise
This paper seeks to contribute to literatures on privatization in criminal justice by commenting on some recent developments - especially in Canada and the USA. The focus is on entrepreneurial aspects of corporate and commercial involvement in privatization, and on how the corporate sector plays a part in creating a demand for its own services. The observations of the author draw not only from research knowledge, but also from her experiences in …
The Lithuanian centre for survivors of torture
Contrasts in Tolerance
Visions of Social Control
Policing Reform
Policing Reform
Policing Reform
Visions of Social Control
Confronting Crime
The Persistent Prison?
By situating her analysis in the context of theoretical and political arguments about the possibility of decarceration, McMahon provides in her work a stimulus to the development of progressive penal politics not just in Canada, but in all western countries.
Contrasts in Tolerance
Net-Widening’
Problematic aspects of the concept of ‘net-widening’ as used in critical analyses of community corrections are documented. Political and analytical rationales for challenging contentions of ‘net-widening’ are advanced. The critical literature yields a political void. The conclusion of positivists that ‘nothing works’ in rehabilitating the recalcitrant offender has merely been transmuted by critical criminologists: ‘nothing works’ in reforming the…
Interview with Rosa Del Olmo
From Punishment to Doing Good
The Persistent Prison? Rethinking Decarceration and Penal Reform
The Prison system is widely believed to be an immutable element of contemporary society. Many criminologists and sociologists of deviance believe that decarceration movements have failed to yield progressive reform, and that feasible alternatives to the prison system do not exist. Maeve McMahon challenges these views. Reconstructing the emergence of critical perspectives on decarceration, she examines analytical and empirical problems in the rese…
The Lithuanian centre for survivors of torture
La répression comme entreprise
This paper seeks to contribute to literatures on privatization in criminal justice by commenting on some recent developments - especially in Canada and the USA. The focus is on entrepreneurial aspects of corporate and commercial involvement in privatization, and on how the corporate sector plays a part in creating a demand for its own services. The observations of the author draw not only from research knowledge, but also from her experiences in …
Criminology (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Criminal justice (2 works)