Understanding Community Penalties
Subtitle: Probation, Policy and Social Change (Crime and Justice)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: July 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780335206254
Subjects: Law; Penology & punishment; Social Science; Sociology; Criminology; Penology; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Community-based corrections; Great Britain; Probation
First sentence: This book is about 'punishment in the community', a term which first came into vogue in Britain during the late 1980s as part an attempt to reposition or rebrand the supervision of offenders in the community (see, for example, Home Office 1990b).