NCJ Number
197122
Editor(s)
Sue Rex,
Michael Tonry
Date Published
2002
Length
247 pages
Annotation
This volume of essays provides a comprehensive overview of sentencing policies and practices in England and Wales as set out by the 2001 Halliday Report explored at the 26th Cropwood Round Table Conference on Sentencing Policies and Possibilities in Britain held in Cambridge in 2001, proposing a comprehensive overhaul of law, practice and institutional arrangements for dealing with convicted offenders in Britain.
Abstract
Prepared by John Halliday, the Halliday Report (2001) draws on extensive consultation in order to review and propose an overhaul of the law, practice, and institutional arrangements for handling convicted offenders in Britain. The Report proposes replacing existing sentencing guidelines to govern imposition of all sentences imposed in magistrates’ and higher courts and the creation of a sentence review function in the judiciary to oversee the imposition and the implementation amendment, revocation, and final termination of all community penalties. This book presents 10 essays from a group of leading authorities attending the 2001, 26th Cropwood Round Table Conference on Sentencing Policies and Possibilities in Britain addressing sentencing politics, policies, and practices in England and Wales in light of the Halliday Report. However, the essays go beyond the Report and explore fundamental sentencing reform issues that include: (1) sentencing policy and public opinion; (2) the lay and professional judiciary; (3) race, ethnicity, and religion and sentencing; (4) setting sentencing policy through guidelines; (5) imprisonment; (6) community penalties; (7) ex-prisoner re-entry; (8) persistent offenders; and (9) treatment of prior convictions.