Tackling prison overcrowding
Subtitle: Build more prisons? Sentence fewer offenders?
By: edited by Mike Hough, Rob Allen and Enver Solomon
Series: Researching criminal justice series
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bristol
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9781847421104
Subjects: Prison administration; Prisons; Government policy; Overcrowding
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Mode of access: Internet.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Mike Hough and Enver Solomon; title: The prisoners' dilemma in England and Wales / Nicola Lacey; title: Building on sand : why expanding the prison estate is not the way to 'secure the future' / Carol Hedderman; title: Towards more consistent and predictable sentencing in England and Wales / Jessica Jacobson, Julian Roberts and Mike Hough; title: 'Titan' prisons : do size, efficiency and legitimacy matter? / Alison Liebling; title: Private punishment? An examination of the expansion, development and employment relations of private prisons / Sanjiv Sachdev; title: Reducing the use of custody as a sanction : a review of recent international experiences / Julian Roberts; title: Where now? / Rod Morgan; title: Endnote : latest developments in penal policy / Rob Allen.