NCJ Number
155363
Editor(s)
A Duff,
S Marshall,
R E Dobash,
R P Dobash
Date Published
1994
Length
324 pages
Annotation
These 18 papers examine sentencing and corrections policies in the United Kingdom and the United States, with emphasis on penal theory and practice with respect to recent experience.
Abstract
The papers were presented at the Fulbright Colloquium on Penal Theory and Penal Practice held at the University of Stirling in England in September 1992. The Colloquium brought together theorists, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners from different disciplines, backgrounds, and countries. Participants included legal theorists, sociologists, criminologists, philosophers, psychologists, civil servants, judges, probation officers, and prison administrators. Individual papers focus on sentencing reform, the corrections crisis in the United Kingdom, proportionality and parsimony in sentencing, just deserts, and the role of imprisonment. Additional papers focused on the changing aims of the English probation system, community service orders, the use of fines, criminal justice responses to domestic assault and violence against women, alternative dispute settlement, and differing perspectives of the view that imprisonment should be abolished in Great Britain. Chapter notes and reference lists