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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... EARLY RELEASE: THE PENAL SYSTEM'S SAFETY VALVE 1. 7.1 Early Release: Useful, Controversial, Troublesome 2. 7.2 History of Early Release 1. 2. From Remission to Automatic Early Release Parole (Discretionary Early Release) 3. 7.3 Early ...
... Early Release Evaluated 11. 8 THE YOUTHJUSTICE SYSTEM 1. 8.1 Young People, Crime and the Penal Crisis 2. 8.2 Responding to Youth Crime: Models of Youth Justice 1. The Welfare Model 2. The Justice Model 3. Minimum Intervention and ...
... released earlier still under a 'home detention curfew' enforced by electronic monitoring (or 'tagging'). (The system of early release from prison sentences is explained and discussed in Chapter 7.) Non-custodial sentences (see Chapter 5) ...
... early release (see Chapter 7.) I.2. The. Penal. Crisis. And. Strategies. For. Criminal. Justice. This book is largely concerned with the 'crisis' in the English penal system and the policies which governments have developed in response to ...
... early release of prisoners. Chapter 8 examines the parallel system of youth justice, equally prone to its own parallel crises, and for similar reasons. Chapter 9 investigates the burning issue of bias within the criminal justice system ...
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 |