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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... Crisis of Neo-Liberalism: Coalition and Conservative Governments since 2010 10.3 How to Solve the Crisis 1. Approaches to the Penal Crisis 2. Measures to Solve the Crisis 3. The Prospects 14. Glossary of Key Terms 15. Notes.
... measures to rehabilitate and reform offenders (see section 2.2 of Chapter 2), while others advocate 'restorative justice' measures which seek to ensure that offenders perform reparation to their victims and to the community (see ...
... measures which are intended to help the offender, such as probation (or to help the victim, such as compensation) rather than to hurt or harm the offender. However, in this book we use the word to refer to any measure which is imposed ...
... measures exacerbating prisoners' sense of injustice. Although Woolf stated that 'there is no single cause of riots' (para. 9.23) it is perhaps not a great distortion to say that he saw the lack of legitimacy of the prison for its ...
... measures can be taken, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, 'exceptional', 'very serious' or 'dangerous' offenders who can be made subject to much tougher measures. In this way 'a bifurcated policy allows governments to get tough ...
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 |