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:
The book is supported by online resources for lecturers and students, including chapter PowerPoints, sample syllabus, summaries of key legislative acts, bills and official reports, a list of recommended further reading for each chapter, and links to important Penal Agencies and Organisations, Law Reform Organisations, and other useful academic sites.
Essential reading for students of criminal justice and criminology, studying penology, punishments and the penal system. |
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... less dogmatic and more pragmatic. The centrepiece of this new strategy was the Criminal Justice Act 1991, which among other objectives sought to reduce the prison population and make it more easily manageable (a 'Strategy B' aim) while ...
... less than six hours per day out of their cells, and 20 per cent less than two hours. Things then got worse. From April 2008 all Friday afternoon activities in public sector prisons were cancelled to help meet targets for 'efficiency ...
... less likely to cause problems: if the prisons predominantly housed old people or nuns rather than young men with a ... less generous, it becomes all the more likely that prisoners serving long sentences will feel that they have rather ...
... less plausible and less acceptable, with a general belief arising that 'nothing works' in the treatment of offenders. This undermined the legitimacy of the penal system: not only of the prisons (whose claim to be providing effective ...
... Justice' refers to the obligation of the Prison Service to treat prisoners with humanity and fairness, and to prepare them for their return to the community in a way which makes it less likely that they will re-offend. (Paras 9.19–9.20;
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 |