Beschreibung:
Now in its Sixth Edition, this book remains the most comprehensive and authoritative on the penal system, providing students with an incisive, critical account of the punitive, managerial and humanitarian approaches to criminal justice.
Chapter 1. Crisis? What crisis?Chapter 2. Justifying punishmentChapter 3. Explaining punishmentChapter 4. Sentencing: the crux of the crisisChapter 5. Punishment in the communityChapter 6. Prisons and the penal crisisChapter 7. Early release: the penal system's safety valveChapter 8. The youth justice systemChapter 9. Diversity and bias in the criminal justice systemChapter 10. Solving the crisis?