Alternatives to prison : options for an insecure society

2004

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Written by leading authorities in the field, this text provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging review of the range of issues associated with using the variety of non-custodial sanctions, examining experiences in Scotland and Northern Ireland as well as England and Wales.As the UK faces up to the consequences of a rapidly increasing prison population so the search for alternative approaches to punishment and dealing with offenders has become an increasingly urgent priority for government policy and society as a whole. This book, a product of the Coulsfield Commission and written by the leading authorities in the field, provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging review of the range of issues associated with using the variety of non-custodial sanctions, examining experiences in Scotland and Northern Ireland as well as England and Wales.;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 wrong-doing. The chapters in the book cover such issues as trends in crime, victimisation and punishment; sentencing frameworks; public opinion and community penalties; diversionary and non-supervisory approaches to dealing with offenders; reparative and restorative approaches; electronic monitoring; dealing with substance-misusing offenders in the community; sentencing decisions; punitiveness in high crime-communities; dimensions of difference.