The penal system
Subtitle: an introduction
By: Michael Cavadino and James Dignan.
Contributors: Dignan, James.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9781412929462; 9781412929479
Subjects: Corrections -- England.; Corrections -- Wales.; Imprisonment -- England.; Imprisonment -- Wales.; Criminal justice, Administration of -- England.; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Wales.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [414]-456) and index.
Table of contents: Machine generated contents note: 1 Crisis? What Crisis?; 2 Justifying Punishment; 3 Explaining Punishment; 4 Court Decisions: the Crux of the Crisis; 5 Community Penalties and the Future of Punishment; 6 Prisons and the Penal Crisis; 7 Prison Privatization: Panacea or Pandora's Box?; 8 Early Release: the Penal System's Safety Valve; 9 Young Offenders: Systems Management or System Disaster?; 10 Bias in the Criminal Justice System; 11 Solving the Crisis?; A Self-Study Guide to Electronic Sources Available on the; Internet.