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Title Alternatives to prison : options for an insecure society / edited by Anthony Bottoms, Sue Rex, and Gwen Robinson
Published Cullompton, Devon ; Portland, Or. : Willan Pub., 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 436 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary "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."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Alternatives to imprisonment.
Alternatives to imprisonment -- Great Britain
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
Alternatives to imprisonment
Strafrechtspflege
Strafrechtstheorie
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Form Electronic book
Author Bottoms, A. E
Rex, Sue
Robinson, Gwen, 1969-
LC no. 2005280351
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