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.
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... institutions which respond officially to the commission of offences, notably the police, prosecution authorities and courts. It is often misleading or unsatisfactory to examine the penal system in isolation from the larger criminal ...
... institution (for offenders aged 18 to 20) and detention and training orders (for young offenders under 18). Non-custodial penalties (to which we devote Chapter 5) include suspended sentence orders, fines, community orders (including ...
... Institution (2010), Ford open prison (2011) and a young offender unit at Littlehey Prison (2011). As we noted above ... institutions lack the particular 'toxic mix' of prisoners which is supposed to be an important causative factor in ...
... institutions. Budget cuts would appear to be the key underlying factor. The very phrase 'toxic mix', with its pseudo-scientific ring, indicates a more fundamental deficiency in the orthodox account. As we have portrayed it in Figure 1.1 ...
... institution is 'legitimate' if it is perceived as morally justified; the problem with the penal system is that this perception is lacking, and many people inside and outside the system believe that it is morally indefensible, or at ...
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 |