Inside Crime and Prison and Other Studies

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Cesar Barros Leal
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1
Copyright
2026
Pages
288
Book Type
Academic

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This book contains a series of texts I presented at seminars/congresses, in different countries in America, Europe, and Asia, over the past three decades (1997-2020). Some of these were discussed in meetings of the American Society of Criminology in the United States and Canada. It seemed convenient to keep them as they were presented so I resisted the temptation of updating data. Some lectures were later converted into articles and published in international journals and books. The latter were distributed among participants of the Brazilian Interdisciplinary Course on Human Rights, regularly organized by the Brazilian Institute of Human Rights and the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights in Fortaleza, Ceará State, Brazil. Most of the texts deal with the phenomenon of crime, prison, and alternative sentencing, but other studies have to do with juvenile justice system in Brazil and environmental refugees. In some events, given time limit, smaller texts were submitted. In the last section, I included a glossary of foreign words in French, German, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish as well as an alphabetical index and a name index. 

Cesar Barros Leal

Professor from the Law School of the Federal University of Ceará; Doctor of Law (UNAM); Recipient of post-doc positions on Latin American Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (College of Political and Social Sciences), on Law at the Federal University of Santa Catarina and on Human Rights at Salamanca University; President of Brazilian Institute of Human Rights; Former Member of the General Assembly and the Board of Directors of Inter-American Institute of Human Rights.

"In this engaging volume by César Barros Leal, scholars and practitioners can track the development and evolution of criminological thinking in Brazil. Tackling important subjects and narrating the need for change, Leal builds compelling arguments and advocates for updating the traditional ways of thinking about law, crime, and justice.
César Barros Leal is an Emeritus Professor at the Law School of the Federal University of Ceará and that the Brazilian Institute of Human Rights is a Special Consultative Body of the United Nations."
Sally S. Simpson, Distinguished University Professor (Emerita) of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Former Director of the Center for the Study of Business Ethics. Regulation, & Crime (C-BERC) at the University of Maryland, College Park

"His works are also characterized by their abundant allusions to the legal systems of a great diversity of countries, which we will be able to see throughout the book he now offers us. The relevance of this perspective is highlighted, for example, by Richard Bennett, who, when referring to the subject of comparative investigation in criminal justice, explains that this comparison expands intellectual horizons and deepens the understanding of the operation of criminal justice systems, with immediate implications for those in charge of formulating criminal policy, as well as for professionals and technicians working in this field.
Inside Crime and Prison provides a thorough insight into the issues currently needed to be addressed in terms of social control in general and penal and penitentiary systems in particular."
Douglas Durán Chavarría, Director of ILANUD (United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders)

This book contains a series of texts I presented at seminars/congresses, in different countries in America, Europe, and Asia, over the past three decades (1997-2020). Some of these were discussed in meetings of the American Society of Criminology in the United States and Canada. It seemed convenient to keep them as they were presented so I resisted the temptation of updating data. Some lectures were later converted into articles and published in international journals and books. The latter were distributed among participants of the Brazilian Interdisciplinary Course on Human Rights, regularly organized by the Brazilian Institute of Human Rights and the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights in Fortaleza, Ceará State, Brazil. Most of the texts deal with the phenomenon of crime, prison, and alternative sentencing, but other studies have to do with juvenile justice system in Brazil and environmental refugees. In some events, given time limit, smaller texts were submitted. In the last section, I included a glossary of foreign words in French, German, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish as well as an alphabetical index and a name index. 

Cesar Barros Leal

Professor from the Law School of the Federal University of Ceará; Doctor of Law (UNAM); Recipient of post-doc positions on Latin American Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (College of Political and Social Sciences), on Law at the Federal University of Santa Catarina and on Human Rights at Salamanca University; President of Brazilian Institute of Human Rights; Former Member of the General Assembly and the Board of Directors of Inter-American Institute of Human Rights.

"In this engaging volume by César Barros Leal, scholars and practitioners can track the development and evolution of criminological thinking in Brazil. Tackling important subjects and narrating the need for change, Leal builds compelling arguments and advocates for updating the traditional ways of thinking about law, crime, and justice.
César Barros Leal is an Emeritus Professor at the Law School of the Federal University of Ceará and that the Brazilian Institute of Human Rights is a Special Consultative Body of the United Nations."
Sally S. Simpson, Distinguished University Professor (Emerita) of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Former Director of the Center for the Study of Business Ethics. Regulation, & Crime (C-BERC) at the University of Maryland, College Park

"His works are also characterized by their abundant allusions to the legal systems of a great diversity of countries, which we will be able to see throughout the book he now offers us. The relevance of this perspective is highlighted, for example, by Richard Bennett, who, when referring to the subject of comparative investigation in criminal justice, explains that this comparison expands intellectual horizons and deepens the understanding of the operation of criminal justice systems, with immediate implications for those in charge of formulating criminal policy, as well as for professionals and technicians working in this field.
Inside Crime and Prison provides a thorough insight into the issues currently needed to be addressed in terms of social control in general and penal and penitentiary systems in particular."
Douglas Durán Chavarría, Director of ILANUD (United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders)

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