Tackling Prison Overcrowding : Build More Prisons? Sentence Fewer Offenders?

Mike Hough

ISBN 10: 1847421105 / ISBN 13: 9781847421104

Published by Bristol University Press Okt 2008, 2008

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Neuware - Lord Carter's Review of Prisons (2007), proposed the construction of vast 'Titan' prisons to deal with the problem of prison overcrowding, the establishment of a Sentencing Commission for keeping judicial demand for prison places in line with supply, and further use of the private sector. This book is a response to these controversial proposals.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tackling Prison Overcrowding : Build More Prisons? Sentence Fewer Offenders?
• Publisher: Bristol University Press Okt 2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847421105
• ISBN 13: 9781847421104
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 165H x 10D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 165 millimeters height by 10 millimeters depth
• Weight: 272 grams

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Synopsis

"Tackling prison overcrowding" is a response to controversial proposals for prisons and sentencing set out in by Lord Patrick Carter's "Review of Prisons", published in 2007.

The Carter review proposed the construction of vast 'Titan' prisons to deal with the immediate problem of prison overcrowding, the establishment of a Sentencing Commission as a mechanism for keeping judicial demand for prison places in line with supply, along with further use of the private sector, including private sector management methods.

"Tackling prison overcrowding" comprises nine chapters by leading academic experts, who expose these proposals to critical scrutiny. They take the Carter Report to task for construing the problems too narrowly, in terms of efficiency and economy, and for failing to understand the wider issues of justice that need addressing. They argue that the crisis of prison overcrowding is first and foremost a political problem - arising from penal populism - for which political solutions need to be found.

This accessible report will be of interest to policy makers, probation practitioners, academics and other commentators on criminal policy.

About the Author

Mike Hough is Emeritus Professor at the School of Law at Birkbeck, University of London. He was President of the British Society of Criminology from 2008 until 2011, and he was awarded the European Society of Criminology Award for 2020, in recognition of his lifetime contribution to European criminology.