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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... political board which shows little sign of resolution. As we argue, this sense of impending crisis may just provide an opportunity for reform of the penal system, but we are not holding our breath. It would be invidious to single out ...
... politicians). Some writers have even described criminal justice as a 'non-system'. Whether that description is still an accurate one is an issue to be considered in the light of developments in recent years (see in particular Chapters.
... politicians – that the number of prisoners in England and Wales is alarmingly high. It has also, until relatively recently, been rapidly rising. Table 1.1 shows how (despite occasional dips), the prison population rose to 86,000 in 2012 ...
... political rows (Cavadino and Dignan, 2002: 184–6). Yet despite the air of moral panic which surrounds such incidents, it remains the case that since the 1960s the English penal system has not had a bad record overall for security, in ...
... political crisis which transcends the prison walls' (1982: 23–4). There may have been an element of revolutionary wishful thinking here: if all the system had to worry about was the minority of people who seriously call for the ...
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 |