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Alternatives to prison [electronic resource] : options for an insecure society / edited by Anthony Bottoms, Sue Rex, and Gwen Robinson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cullompton, Devon ; Portland, Or. : Willan Pub., 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 436 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9781134036479 (electronic bk.)
  • 1134036477 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Alternatives to prison.DDC classification:
  • 364.68 22
LOC classification:
  • HV9276.5 .A48 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
How did we get here / the editors -- Trends in crime, victimisation and punishment / Chris Lewis -- Empirical research relevant to sentencing frameworks / Anthony Bottoms -- Public opinion and community penalties / Shadd Maruna and Anna King -- Punishment as communication / Sue Rex -- Diversionary and non-supervisory approaches to dealing with offenders / George Mair -- Reparative and restorative approaches / Gill McIvor -- Rehabilitative and reintegrative approaches / Peter Raynor -- Electronic monitoring and the community supervision of offenders / Mike Nellis -- Dealing with substance -misusing offenders in the community / Judith Rumgay -- Intensive projects for prolific/persistent offenders / Anne Worrall and Rob C. Mawby -- What guides sentencing decisions? / Martin Wasik -- Sentence management / Gwen Robinson and James Dignan -- Dimensions of difference / Hazel Kemshall, Rob Canton and Roy Bailey -- Attitudes to punishment in two high-crime communities / Anthony Bottoms and Andrew Wilson -- Pulling some threads together / the editors.
Review: "The book will be essential reading not only for government policy makers and criminal justice practitioners but for anybody with a professional or academic interest in prison, probation and the nature of society's response to wrongdoing."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

How did we get here / the editors -- Trends in crime, victimisation and punishment / Chris Lewis -- Empirical research relevant to sentencing frameworks / Anthony Bottoms -- Public opinion and community penalties / Shadd Maruna and Anna King -- Punishment as communication / Sue Rex -- Diversionary and non-supervisory approaches to dealing with offenders / George Mair -- Reparative and restorative approaches / Gill McIvor -- Rehabilitative and reintegrative approaches / Peter Raynor -- Electronic monitoring and the community supervision of offenders / Mike Nellis -- Dealing with substance -misusing offenders in the community / Judith Rumgay -- Intensive projects for prolific/persistent offenders / Anne Worrall and Rob C. Mawby -- What guides sentencing decisions? / Martin Wasik -- Sentence management / Gwen Robinson and James Dignan -- Dimensions of difference / Hazel Kemshall, Rob Canton and Roy Bailey -- Attitudes to punishment in two high-crime communities / Anthony Bottoms and Andrew Wilson -- Pulling some threads together / the editors.

"The book will be essential reading not only for government policy makers and criminal justice practitioners but for anybody with a professional or academic interest in prison, probation and the nature of society's response to wrongdoing."--BOOK JACKET.

Description based on print version record.

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