Penal Policy and Social JusticeExamines the recent developments in penal policy, and asks whether they will make for more "justice". Drawing on international evidence the author asks whether making the punishment fit the crime can lessen the excessive penalization of the poor, the mentally disordered and racial minorities. |
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Page 69
... crime , or whether there is a direct bias that can be detected in criminal justice processes . Evidence for higher crime rates for different ethnic groups is equivocal . Much US research ( summarised by Petersilia , 1985 ) claims higher ...
... crime , or whether there is a direct bias that can be detected in criminal justice processes . Evidence for higher crime rates for different ethnic groups is equivocal . Much US research ( summarised by Petersilia , 1985 ) claims higher ...
Page 70
... crime in periods of rising unemployment . Fairly typical of reviews of evidence of links between unemployment , crime and imprisonment is a study carried out by the Council of Europe on correlations between eco- nomic recession , crime ...
... crime in periods of rising unemployment . Fairly typical of reviews of evidence of links between unemployment , crime and imprisonment is a study carried out by the Council of Europe on correlations between eco- nomic recession , crime ...
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... crime are the normal means of getting by . Variants of the theory emphasise the ' culture of poverty ' , which is supposedly crime - tolerant ; the persistence of unemployment , which is crime - provoking ; the lack of ' respectable ...
... crime are the normal means of getting by . Variants of the theory emphasise the ' culture of poverty ' , which is supposedly crime - tolerant ; the persistence of unemployment , which is crime - provoking ; the lack of ' respectable ...
Contents
Developments in Penal Policy during the 1980s | 17 |
Penal Policy and Social Structure 55 | 55 |
Penal Policy and Social Policy | 89 |
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