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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... suggested that 'only 16% [of prisoners] reached our expectation of being out of their cell for more than 10 hours' (HMIP, 2018a: 8) The poor conditions in prisons affect staff as well as inmates, contributing to low staff morale and ...
... suggest that feelings of insecurity are not likely to recede in the short term. This does not necessarily mean that ... suggests that 'playing the law and order card' is by no means a sure ticket to electoral success. For one thing ...
... suggests, we would expect that if we introduced a new kind of harsh punishment designed to deter, the offenders who suffered the new punishment would be measurably less likely to reoffend than similar offenders who underwent a more ...
... suggest that more severe punishments deter any better than more lenient ones (see further Bottoms, 2004: 63– 6) ... suggests that, while general deterrence might form the basis of a plausible general justification for having a system of ...
... suggest that the 'incapacitation effects' of imprisonment are only very modest – as with deterrence, the effectiveness of punishment in this regard is much less than common sense would suggest. This is largely because most offenders ...
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 |