1st Edition

Reforming Community Penalties

By Sue Rex Copyright 2005
192 Pages
by Willan

192 Pages
by Willan

This book sets out to explore the role of community penalties in sentencing, arguing that the absence of a strong intellectual framework or underpinning has hampered their development in policy and practice. The research undertaken for this book involved asking people with a particular stake in criminal justice what the point of punishment was and what the courts were trying to achieve in... Read more
Contents Preface 1 Introduction: Researching Communicative Penal Theory 2 Communicative Theory --Origins, Evolution and Application to Community Penalties 3 Seeking Stakeholders' Views of Punishment 4 Prioritising Penal Aims 5 Penal Messages 6 Responding to Punishment 7 Towards a Framework for Community Penalties 8 Conclusions Bibliography Index

Biography

Sue Rex