The Penal System: An IntroductionNow in its Sixth Edition, this book remains the most comprehensive and authoritative on the penal system, providing students with an incisive, critical account of the punitive, managerial and humanitarian approaches to criminal justice.
Fully updated to cover the most recent changes in the Criminal Justice System, the new edition:
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... Home Office and Home Secretary were responsible for prisons, probation. sentencing and criminal justice policy; they retain responsibility for the police service.) The whole of the criminal justice system is subject to the provisions of ...
... Home Office projections estimate that by 2023 the prison population could increase by 3,200 (Ministry of Justice, 2018a). There are several factors involved in this increase in prison numbers in recent years. In Chapter 4 we discuss the ...
... (Home Office, 1990a: para. 2.8) All of this suggests that, while general deterrence might form the basis of a plausible general justification for having a system of punishment, it is more difficult to argue that the amount of punishment ...
... head of the Home Office Research and Planning Unit, Roger Tarling (1993: 154), is that 'a change in the use of custody of the order of 25 per cent would be needed to produce a 1 per cent change in the level of crime'. On the other hand ...
... (Home Office, 1990a: para. 2.7; our italics). Although once dominant in penal discourse, the ideal of reform became discredited in the early 1970s, a development known as the 'collapse of the rehabilitative ideal' (Bottoms, 1980). This ...
Other editions - View all
The Penal System: An Introduction Michael Cavadino,James Dignan,George Mair,Jamie Bennett No preview available - 2019 |
The Penal System: An Introduction Michael Cavadino,James Dignan,George Mair,Jamie Bennett No preview available - 2020 |
The Penal System: An Introduction Michael Cavadino,James Dignan,George Mair,Jamie Bennett No preview available - 2020 |