Global Bibliography of Prison Systems
Version 2.0 COMPILER'S NOTES Some general comments about the preparation, structure, and use of the bibliography may be helpful in facilitating its use. The following sections provide information about the different formats in which the bibliography is found, the criteria used for including references, and some suggestions for searching the bibliography for countries or keywords. Bibliography Formats This bibliography is available in several formats with different options available depending on the format the user is accessing. Each format type can be downloaded from the UNCJIN website at http://www.uncjin.org.- EndNote Plus format:
The bibliography was created using EndNote® Plus 2, a reference database and bibliography maker (see the website at www.niles.com). Persons using the database as an EndNote Plus library will be able to manage and edit the references and will have access to the abstracts included with some of the references. —Download "
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WordPerfect format: The references are also available as a printed document prepared with WordPerfect®. With version 2.0 of this format the user has all documents presented as a bibliography and including suffix notes indicating the {countries/continents/regions} covered in the reference, and the {keywords} applicable to that reference. —Download "GBOPSv2.wpd" or GBOPS2A.wpd (with abstracts).Adobe Acrobat format: In its Internet version, the document is available as an Adobe Acrobat® file either without or with abstracts. —Download "GBOPSv2.pdf" or GBOPS2A.pdf Reference Inclusion Criteria - An attempt was made to use references since 1985. Where exceptions occur it
was because the reference is seen as having important historical value for that country or for the general topic of penology. Historical items are also used if the country has few or no items without those historical ones.
- An attempt was made to avoid documents that are specifically on political prisoners or on war time imprisonment. The goal is to identify information about a country's penal system rather than its politics or foreign relations. Exceptions are documents that include
system descriptions while highlighting political imprisonment (e.g., many of the Amnesty International references), or where the country has few or no items without those political imprisonment items.
- Works in any language are included, with English title given when available. If title, {country} or <keyword> looks relevant (and, especially when there is not much information available on the country's prison system), the researcher or practitioner can always get assistance with
document translation. Translation services for short items like titles, are available (English-Russian; Russian-English; English-Spanish; Spanish-English; English-German; German-English; English-French; French-English) on the Internet at the translation page for the
Rule of Law Organization.
Search Suggestions In hard copy form the bibliography is indexed by the {country} terms found as a suffix to each reference. As seen at page 44, the user is referred to pages containing references to particular continents/regions and countries. A second suffix to each reference is a list of <keywords>. These have not been indexed for hard copy purposes in the same way as
{country} information, but users of the file format versions of the bibliography can do word searches to identify appropriate references. The keywords (all of which have prisons as the universal term) used in the bibliography are: administration | indigenous people | rights | architecture |
labor | riots | capital punishment | media
| security | classification | minorities | staff | conditions | policy | statistics/research | |
corporal punishment | pretrial detention | system description | discipline | prisoner society | treatment program | drugs |
prisoners | types | education |
privatization | vissiting | health | probation/parole/alternatives | women | history | release | |
- When searching with the EndNote Plus library version, a "Find" command in the "Notes" field will identify references for a particular continent/region or country. When looking for many different countries, search with "~Global" in the "Notes" field. A search in "any field" will pick up a larger number of references, but some of those will have found the country in the "place of publication"
field, which may be different than the country covered by the document.
General Information About the References - Version 2.0 includes 780 references from 117 countries.
- Countries missing from the bibliography (although they may be covered in references indexed as
"continent/region") include: Andorra; Angola; Antigua and Barbuda; Armenia; Azerbaijan; the Bahamas; Benin; Bhutan; Botswana; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cameroon; Cape Verde; the Central African Republic; Comoros; the Congo; Cyprus; Djiboute; Dominica; Ethiopia; Gabon; Georgia; Grenada; Guinea-Bissau; Iceland; Iraq; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; the Lao People's Democratic Republic; Lesotho; Liberia; the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Liechtenstein; Madagascar; Maldives;
Mali; Malta; the Marshall Islands; Mauritius; Federated States of Micronesia; Monaco; Mozambique; Nicaragua; the Niger; Oman; Palau; Panama; Paraguay; Rwanda; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Samoa; San Marino; Sao Tome and Principe; Senegal; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Singapore; Solomon Islands; Somalia; Swaziland; the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; Togo; Tunisia; Turkmenistan; the United Arab Emirates;
Uzbekistan; Vanuatu; Viet Nam; Yemen; and Qatar.
GBOPS | Preface | Acknowledgements | Global Bibliography |
