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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... received not 'cautions' but reprimands and warnings, also known as 'final warnings'. The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 replaced these with 'youth cautions' and 'youth conditional cautions': see further ...
... receive punishments which were in proportion to the seriousness of the crime ('just deserts'). However, within months of the Act's implementation in 1992 the Conservative government abandoned this strategy. From 1993 to 1997, in a ...
... receive parole (see Chapter 7, section 7.3). If provision for early release becomes less generous, it becomes all the more likely that prisoners serving long sentences will feel that they have rather less to lose. There is widespread ...
... receive if they offend – that, in the famous words of Conservative Home Secretary Michael Howard in 1993, 'Prison works... it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.' There are two kinds of deterrence, known as ...
... received wisdom about reform came to be that 'nothing works', that 'whatever you do to offenders makes no difference ... receive seems to make no discernible difference to whether they reoffend or not. However, studies from the 1970s ...
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 |