Imprisonment
The imprisonment sentence - also imprisonment - is a form of state sanction to respond to a crime . The freedom of the offender is restricted, for example by placement in a prison . The penalty is pronounced by a court through a judgment .
Legal situation in individual legal systems
See also
Commons : Imprisonment - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files
Wiktionary: imprisonment - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: imprisonment - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
literature
- UV Bondeson: Alternatives to Imprisonment . Westview, Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford 1994.
- N. Morris: The Future of Imprisonment . University of Chicago Press, Chicago, London 1974.
- Hans Joachim Schneider : The imprisonment . In: International Handbook of Criminology . tape II . de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89949-129-6 , pp. 1025 ff .
- Michel Foucault : Supervision and Punishment - The Birth of Prison . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a. M. 1976.