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Handbook of basic principles and promising practices on alternatives to imprisonment / [prepared for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) by Dirk van Zyl Smit].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Criminal justice handbook seriesPublication details: New York : United Nations, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (iv, 80 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781429498029
  • 1429498021
  • 9211482208
  • 9789211482201
Other title:
  • Alternatives to imprisonment
  • At head of title: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Vienna
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Handbook of basic principles and promising practices on alternatives to imprisonment.DDC classification:
  • 364.6/8 22
LOC classification:
  • HV9276.5 .V36 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Introducing alternatives to imprisonment -- 1.1. Why consider alternatives to imprisonment -- 1.2. What is to be done? -- 1.3. Who should develop the strategy to alternatives to imprisonment? -- 1.4. Potential challenges -- 1.5. The role of the United Nations -- 2. Limiting the criminal justice system's reach -- 2.1. Decriminalization -- 2.2. Diversion -- 2.3. Who should act? -- 3. Pre-trial, pre-conviction and pre-sentencing processes -- 3.1. General -- 3.2. Alternatives to pre-trial detention -- 3.3. Considerations in implementing alternatives to pre-trial detention -- 3.4. Infrastructure requirements for alternatives to pre-trial detention -- 3.5 Who should act? -- 4. Sentencing and alternative punishments -- 4.1. Sentencing -- 4.2. Possible alternatives to sentences of imprisonment -- 4.3. Specific non-custodial sentences -- 4.4. Infrastructure requirements for sentencing alternatives -- 4.5. Choosing alternatives to imprisonment at the sentencing stage -- 4.6. Who should act? -- 5. Early release -- 5.1. Forms of early release -- 5.2. Early release: concerns and responses -- 5.3. Early release on compassionate grounds -- 5.4. Conditional release and its administrative infrastructure -- 5.5. Who should act? -- 6. Special categories -- 6.1. General -- 6.2. Children -- 6.3. Drug offenders -- 6.4. Mental illness -- 6.5. Women -- 6.6. Over-represented groups -- 7. Toward a coherent strategy -- 7.1. Knowledge base -- 7.2. Political initiatives -- 7.3. Legislative reform -- 7.4. Infrastructure and resources -- 7.5. Net-widening -- 7.6. Monitoring -- 7.7. Promotion of alternatives -- 7.8. The media and alternatives to imprisonment -- 7.9. Justice and equality -- Conclusion.
Action note:
  • digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
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"United Nations publication sales no. E.07. XI.2"--Title page verso

"April 2007"--Page 4 of cover

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- 1. Introducing alternatives to imprisonment -- 1.1. Why consider alternatives to imprisonment -- 1.2. What is to be done? -- 1.3. Who should develop the strategy to alternatives to imprisonment? -- 1.4. Potential challenges -- 1.5. The role of the United Nations -- 2. Limiting the criminal justice system's reach -- 2.1. Decriminalization -- 2.2. Diversion -- 2.3. Who should act? -- 3. Pre-trial, pre-conviction and pre-sentencing processes -- 3.1. General -- 3.2. Alternatives to pre-trial detention -- 3.3. Considerations in implementing alternatives to pre-trial detention -- 3.4. Infrastructure requirements for alternatives to pre-trial detention -- 3.5 Who should act? -- 4. Sentencing and alternative punishments -- 4.1. Sentencing -- 4.2. Possible alternatives to sentences of imprisonment -- 4.3. Specific non-custodial sentences -- 4.4. Infrastructure requirements for sentencing alternatives -- 4.5. Choosing alternatives to imprisonment at the sentencing stage -- 4.6. Who should act? -- 5. Early release -- 5.1. Forms of early release -- 5.2. Early release: concerns and responses -- 5.3. Early release on compassionate grounds -- 5.4. Conditional release and its administrative infrastructure -- 5.5. Who should act? -- 6. Special categories -- 6.1. General -- 6.2. Children -- 6.3. Drug offenders -- 6.4. Mental illness -- 6.5. Women -- 6.6. Over-represented groups -- 7. Toward a coherent strategy -- 7.1. Knowledge base -- 7.2. Political initiatives -- 7.3. Legislative reform -- 7.4. Infrastructure and resources -- 7.5. Net-widening -- 7.6. Monitoring -- 7.7. Promotion of alternatives -- 7.8. The media and alternatives to imprisonment -- 7.9. Justice and equality -- Conclusion.

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