The Penalty of Imprisonment Why 60% of the Prison Population Should Not Be There

by Blom-Cooper, Louis

• ISBN13: 9781847061539
• ISBN10: 1847061532
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-10
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

A highly controversial thesis on penal reform.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. x
Gaols and Goals: Setting the Trap	p. 1
How long to languish in gaol?	p. 13
Re-think or double-think? The Gladstone Committee	p. 16
The age of optimism	p. 25
Conflicts in Criminal Justice: Caught in the Trap	p. 33
Mixed motives: detention centres	p. 37
The decline of rehabilitation	p. 42
The great depression	p. 47
Sentencing: chasing the chimera	p. 50
Changing the practice in a penal society	p. 61
Sentencing: another try	p. 70
Conclusion	p. 72
Depopulating the Prisons: Escaping the Trap	p. 75
Defining the goals	p. 79
Reduction of crime	p. 80
Concern for victims	p. 88
Denunciation of the offence	p. 91
Public opinion	p. 93
Residual imprisonment	p. 94
Conclusion	p. 97
Toughening Up the Trap	p. 101
An afterthought	p. 109
References	p. 111
Index	p. 113
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