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Informationen zum Autor Klappentext Now in its fifth edition, The Penal System: An Introduction remains the most complete, accessible and authoritative resource for your studies in Criminal Justice and Criminology. Fully revised and updated to account for recent changes in the Criminal Justice System, the new edition includes: Expanded material on restorative justice An expanded section on gender and the Criminal Justice System Greater coverage of comparative issues, focussing especially on Scotland An annually updated , keeping you up-to-date with relevant legislation and crucial developments An accessible writing style balanced against a critical and scholarly approach A glossary of key terms that you'll encounter throughout your studies Continued critical coverage of the deepening penal crisis, including sections on the managerial crisis and the crisis of accountability The Penal System consolidates and builds on the successful formula of the fourth edition, bringing the text in line with the key issues facing the Criminal Justice System today. It will prove essential reading across all undergraduate levels for modules on Criminal Justice and Prisons/Punishment. Zusammenfassung Supporting students across their entire module, this authoritative and widely respected text has been fully updated to include the most recent changes in the field and has expanded coverage of restorative justice, gender, and comparative issues Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Companion Website Introduction The Criminal Justice System The Penal Crisis and Strategies for Criminal Justice Notes on Terminology: 'Punishment' and 'System' Crisis? What Crisis? Is there a Crisis? The Orthadox Account of the Crisis The High Prison Population (The Numbers Crisis) Overcrowding Bad Conditions Understaffing Staff Unrest 'Toxic Mix' of Prisoners Riots and Disorder Criticisms of the Orthodox Account Improving on the Orthadox Account The Crisis of Penological Resources The Crisis of Visibility The Crisis of Legitimacy Responses to the Crisis A Radical Pluralist Account of the Crisis Justifying Punishment Is Punishment Unjust? Reductivism Deterrence Incapacitation Reform Just Deserts: Retributivism and Denunciation Retributivism Denunciation Restorative Justice Schools of Penal Thought The Classical School: Deterrence and the Tariff Bentham and Neo-Classicism: Deterrence and Reform Positivism: The Rehabilitative Ideal The Justice Model: Just Deserts and Due Process From Just Deserts to the New Punitiveness - and Beyond? Philosophies, Strategies and Attitudes Conclusions: Punishment and Human Rights Explaining Punishment The Sociology of Punishment The Marxist Tradition Economic Determinism: Rusche and Kirchheimer Ideology and Hegemony: The Legacy of Gramsci Structuralist Marxism and Althusser Post-Structuralism, Discipline and Power: Michel Foucault Humanistic Materialism: The Case of E. P. Thompsom The Durkheimian Tradition The Weberian Tradition Pluralism and Radical Pluralism Applying Penal Sociology The New Penology and The New Punitiveness Comparative Penology and the New Punitiveness Sentencing: The Crux of the Crisis The Crux of the Crisis Who Are the Sentencers? Constraints on the Powers of Sentencers Judical Independence and Traditional English Sentencing Confining Discretion Checking Discretion: Appeals Structuring Discretion: Principles and Guidelines The Current Legal Framework of Sentencing A Brief, Tangled Recent History of Sentencing 1991: From the Strategy of Encouragement to Just Deserts 1992-97: The Law and Order Counter-Reformation New Labour, M...
