Confronting Crime - Crime Control Policy Under New Labour

This book provides a detailed review of the thinking behind New Labour's promise to be 'tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime', looking at policies and proposals in the field of punishment, particularly those embodied in the Halliday Review of the Sentencing Framework (2001), the government White Paper Justice for All (2002), and the 2002 Criminal Justice Bill.

List of contents

Preface 1. Evidence, Elections and Ideology in the Making of Criminal Justice 2. Drug Dependent Offenders and Justice for All3. Unprincipled Sentencing? The Policy Approach to Dangerous Sex Offenders 4. Nuisance Offenders: Scooping the Public Policy Problems5. Procedural and Evidential Protections in the English Courts6. Sentencing Guidelines7. Sentence Management: A New Role for the Judiciary8. Is Sentencing in England and Wales Institutionally Racist?9. Custody Plus, Custody Minus10. Reducing the Prison Population11. Justice for All

About the author

Michael Tonry
is Professor of Law and Public Policy and Director of the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, and Sonosky Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of Minnesota.

Summary

This book provides a detailed review of the thinking behind New Labour's promise to be 'tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime', looking at policies and proposals in the field of punishment, particularly those embodied in the Halliday Review of the Sentencing Framework (2001), the government White Paper Justice for All (2002), and the 2002 Criminal Justice Bill.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Tonry
• Assisted by: Michael Tonry (Editor), Tonry Michael (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.06.2015
• EAN: 9781138878501
• ISBN: 978-1-138-87850-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; England, Wales, Political Ideologies, LAW / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Causes & Prevention Of Crime, Political ideologies and movements, Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law, Laws Of Specific Jurisdictions, Causes and prevention of crime, Wales / Cymru