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Title Community penalties : change and challenges / edited by Anthony Bottoms, Loraine Gelsthorpe, Sue Rex
Published Cullompton, Devon, UK ; Portland, Or. : Willan Pub., 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages)
Series Cambridge criminal justice series
Cambridge criminal justice series.
Contents Cover; Copyright Page; Contents; 1 Introduction: the contemporary scene for community penalties; 2 Community penalties in historical perspective; 3 Community penalties in the context of contemporary social change; 4 Beyond cognitive-behaviourism? Reflections on the effectiveness literature; 5 Compliance and community penalties; 6 Making 'What Works' work: challenges in the delivery of community penalties; 7 Accountability in the delivery of community penalties: to whom, for what, and why?; 8 Accountability: difference and diversity in the delivery of community penalties
9 Technology and the future of community penalties 10 Community penalties and social integration: 'community as solution and as problem; 11 What future for 'public safety' and 'restorative justice' in a system of community penalties?; 12 Concluding reflections; Appendix: Key conclusions; Index
Summary Community penalties are punishments that, in the courts' sentencing tariff, come between imprisonment and fines. They include electronic tagging, supervised unpaid work, and compulsory participation by offenders in treatment programmes. Recent years have seen many changes in England in the field of community penalties. These have included the rapid development of accredited offending behaviour programmes, and some new court orders such as the Referral Order for juveniles, based on the principles of restorative justice. Organisationally, too, the year 2001 sees a major change with the establish
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Community-based corrections -- Great Britain -- Congresses
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
Community-based corrections
Criminal justice, Administration of
Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Bottoms, Anthony E., 1939-
Gelsthorpe, Loraine.
Rex, Sue.
University of Cambridge. Institute of Criminology.
Cropwood Round-Table Conference (24th : 2000 : Cambridge, England)
ISBN 9781135988593
1135988595
1843924293
9781843924296