This book offers a new and innovative way of thinking about desistance from crime, fusing our understanding of desistance transitions, youth transitions, and the impact of significant policy change on people with convictions in a way which is yet to...Daugiau...
Exploring the intricate dynamics surrounding rape complainants within the South African criminal justice system, this book proposes reforms in the approach to participation of victims with the aim of mitigating the structural barriers imposed by t...Daugiau...
Examining the inter-relationship between political rhetoric, reactionary governments and discriminatory ideologies, this book offers a fuller account of how our views on crime are formed. Examining the interrelationship between poli...Daugiau...
Examining the interrelationship between political rhetoric, reactionarygovernments and discriminatory ideologies, this book offers a fuller account of how our views on crime are formed.From media headlines to community groups on social medi...Daugiau...
This book explores criminal sentencing as a political, legal and social process, setting out a democratic account of sentencing in common law jurisdictions. Taking sentencing as a case study of public decision-making in which judge...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1976, A Taste of Prison deals with a very sensitive area of concern in the system of trial and imprisonment in Britain at the time. It describes the conditions at Winchester Prison and Winchester Remand Centre for bo...Daugiau...
First published in 1965, this study was the first attempt in this country to look at the problems of the families of prisoners on a national scale. The survey attempts to portray objectively the conditions of life for the families of a wide range...Daugiau...
An awareness that the effects of prison on offenders were rarely beneficial and may be positively harmful. In this title, first published in 1974, it is argued that there was still the need in society for a commitment, not to reform its deviant me...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1977, this title attempts to document and analyse some of the changes which happened in the first five and a half years of the prisons opening and as far as possible account for them. It was hoped that lessons could be dra...Daugiau...
The working of the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act was the subject of much debate in the 1970s. Discussion had been strong on opinion and short on facts; this book, originally published in 1977, supplied some much-needed evidence, based on the...Daugiau...
In the previous few years English penal policy had undergone considerable change. Originally published in 1975, the contributors to The Use of Imprisonment focus on the use of imprisonment in such a time of transition, and examine various...Daugiau...
This edited international collection explores the nature and extent of wrongful convictions, as well as examining the systems in place that attempt to exonerate the wrongly convicted. Inspired by two conventions of legal scholars, jurists, lawyers...Daugiau...
This book lays out the authors proven approach to investigating and assessing a defendants claim of innocence whether pre-trial, or post-conviction. The author weaves his 35 years of experience into a simple step-by-step process, showing the reade...Daugiau...
This book lays out the authors proven approach to investigating and assessing a defendants claim of innocence whether pre-trial, or post-conviction. The author weaves his 35 years of experience into a simple step-by-step process, showing the rea...Daugiau...
This collection provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the American federal criminal justice system. This collection provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the American federal criminal justice system. The book...Daugiau...
Historically, alternatives to incarceration were developed to reduce the fiscal cost of incarceration. and also keep people in the community while holding them accountable and protecting community safety. The book underscores the importance of ong...Daugiau...
Based upon an extensive empirical study of a democratic therapeutic community (DTC) for women serving long and medium sentences, this book explores the opportunities it provided for reparative and restorative rehabilitation. In so doing it identif...Daugiau...
Based upon an extensive empirical study of a democratic therapeutic community for women serving long and medium sentences, this book explores the opportunities it provided for restorative rehabilitation. In so doing it identifies some of the inter...Daugiau...
First published in 1980, Mugging as a Social Problem sets out to remedy the deficiency of serious research on mugging. The work is based on a random sample of over 1000 muggings which occurred within the Metropolitan Police District in the...Daugiau...
This book explores the unique reentry experiences of incarcerated men and women who are about to be released from prisons in Portugal. By analysing gendered reentry experiences through the narratives of men and women, Gender, Prison and Reentry...Daugiau...
