COMMUNITY PENALTIES by Sir Anthony Bottoms (Editor), Loraine Gelsthorpe (Editor), Sue Rex (Editor) ( 9781903240496 )

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Title:

COMMUNITY PENALTIES
POLICY, PRACTICE AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

By:

Sir Anthony Bottoms (Editor), Loraine Gelsthorpe (Editor), Sue Rex (Editor)

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Hardback

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1903240492

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9781903240496

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 July, 2001

Series:

Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

Pages:

272

Description:

Community penalties are court-ordered punishments, falling between imprisonment and fines, and involve some contact by a criminal justice agency. This work looks at the current debate on which policy pressures may be dominant over community penalties in the future.

Synopsis:

Community penalties are punishments that, in the courts' sentencing tariff, come between imprisonment and fines. They include electronic tagging, supervised unpaid work, and compulsory participation by offenders in treatment programmes. Recent years have seen many changes in England in the field of community penalties. These have included the rapid development of accredited offending behaviour programmes, and some new court orders such as the Referral Order for juveniles, based on the principles of restorative justice. Organisationally, too, the year 2001 sees a major change with the establishment of the National Probation Service for England and Wales. Community Penalties: change and challenges addresses the key issues facing community penalties at this critical time.Topics covered include the recent history of community penalties, partnership work, cognitive behavioural approaches to changing offenders' behaviour (and the need to look beyond these), compliance theory, accountability to the public and to the victim, accommodating difference and diversity in the delivery of community penalties, the use of technology in community penalties, and community penalties and issues of public safety. Community Penalties: change and challenges brings together many leading authors in this field. Together, they provide an authoritative review of a vital field of public policy.

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bibliography, index

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Willan Publishing

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