Community Penalties: Change and Challenges: Policy, Practice and Future Directions (Cambridge Criminal Justice Series)

ISBN 10: 1903240492 / ISBN 13: 9781903240496

Published by Willan, 2001

About this Item

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Community Penalties: Change and Challenges: Policy, Practice and Future Directions (Cambridge Criminal Justice Series)
• Publisher: Willan
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1903240492
• ISBN 13: 9781903240496
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used; Good

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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.

About the Author

Edited by Bottoms, Anthony; Gelsthorpe, Loraine; Rex, Sue