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.
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... particular Chapters 4, 5 and 8). In any event, we do have penal and criminal justice 'systems' in the sense that they are composed of different agencies (public and private) which are interdependent: their activities intimately affect ...
... particular issue of inadequate sanitary facilities in prison is something of a cliché. The fact that many prisoners routinely had to spend long periods in their cells without access to a toilet, having to use chamber pots and queue up ...
... particular, about where in the prison system they occur. If riots are caused by overcrowding, understaffing, bad physical conditions and poor security, one would expect them to occur exclusively in the local prisons and remand centres ...
... particular seem to behave like molecules in a test tube: place such a combination in such a physical environment, agitate, increase the pressure, and an explosion is the automatic result.6 We do not believe that people are like that ...
... particular; and practical responses to the management problems caused by the material crisis of resources. On the ideological side, Tony Bottoms (1980) listed a number of varying responses to the collapse of the rehabilitative ideal and ...
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 |