The penal system
Subtitle: an introduction
By: Michael Cavadino and James Dignan.
Contributors: Dignan, James.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
Subjects: Corrections -- England.; Corrections -- Wales.; Imprisonment -- England.; Imprisonment -- Wales.; Criminal justice, Administration of -- England.; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Wales.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-391) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Crisis? What Crisis?; title: 2 Justifying Punishment; title: 3 Explaining Punishment; title: 4 Court Decisions: the Crux of the Crisis; title: 5 Community Penalties and the Future of Punishment; title: 6 Prisons and the Penal Crisis; title: 7 Prison Privatization: Panacea or Pandora's Box?; title: 8 Early Release: the Penal System's Safety Valve; title: 9 Young Offenders: Systems Management or System Disaster?; title: 10 Bias in the Criminal Justice System; title: 11 Solving the Crisis?; title: A Self-Study Guide to Electronic Sources Available on the; title: Internet.