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Alternatives to Prison
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Description for Alternatives to Prison
Paperback. In the search for alternative approaches to punishment and dealing with offenders this book provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging review of the range of issues associated with using the variety of non-custodial sanctions, examining experiences in Scotland and Northern Ireland as well as England and Wales. Editor(s): Bottoms, Sir Anthony (University of Cambridge); Rex, Sue; Robinson, Gwen. Num Pages: 456 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 32. Weight in Grams: 880.
As the UK and many other western societies face up to the consequences of a rapidly increasing prison population, so the search for alternative approaches to punishment and dealing with offenders has become an increasingly urgent priority for government policy and society as a whole. This book reports the results of the research programme commissioned by the Coulsfield Inquiry into Alternatives to Prison, which was funded by the Esmee Fairbairn 'Rethinking Crime and Punishment' initiative. It is written by leading authorities in the field, and provides a comprehensive, authoritative and wide-ranging review of the ... Read more
As the UK and many other western societies face up to the consequences of a rapidly increasing prison population, so the search for alternative approaches to punishment and dealing with offenders has become an increasingly urgent priority for government policy and society as a whole. This book reports the results of the research programme commissioned by the Coulsfield Inquiry into Alternatives to Prison, which was funded by the Esmee Fairbairn 'Rethinking Crime and Punishment' initiative. It is written by leading authorities in the field, and provides a comprehensive, authoritative and wide-ranging review of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
456
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
879g
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
Cullompton, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843921042
SKU
V9781843921042
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Ref
99-4
Reviews for Alternatives to Prison
'Alternatives to Prison: options for an insecure society will prove to be a quite valuable title in the field of criminology, and specifically it will come to be seen as an invaluable text in the domain of penology and sentencing. Not only have the editors drawn a strong indictment of the multiple drawbacks to imprisonment save in the cases of ... Read more