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 59
... importance accorded to offender variables , is that judgments about which offences are the most serious are becoming somewhat more consequentialist , less strictly intentionalist . Until the 1980s this was not a general trend , with ...
... importance accorded to offender variables , is that judgments about which offences are the most serious are becoming somewhat more consequentialist , less strictly intentionalist . Until the 1980s this was not a general trend , with ...
Page 157
... importance in the original decision to assign a mentally dis- ordered offender to hospital rather than to out - patient treatment ( Gostin , 1984 ) . Of equal importance is that coming into psychiatric care by way of criminal justice ...
... importance in the original decision to assign a mentally dis- ordered offender to hospital rather than to out - patient treatment ( Gostin , 1984 ) . Of equal importance is that coming into psychiatric care by way of criminal justice ...
Page 169
... importance of assigning penal values on a proportion- ality basis of different sanctions is revealed as of utmost importance , since this offers the possibility of fulfilling obligations towards society as victim without being overly ...
... importance of assigning penal values on a proportion- ality basis of different sanctions is revealed as of utmost importance , since this offers the possibility of fulfilling obligations towards society as victim without being overly ...
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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