Alternatives to Prison

Alternatives to Prison
Author: Anthony Bottoms
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 113403654X

As the UK and many other western societies face up to the consequences of a rapidly increasing prison population, so the search for alternative approaches to punishment and dealing with offenders has become an increasingly urgent priority for government policy and society as a whole. This book reports the results of the research programme commissioned by the Coulsfield Inquiry into Alternatives to Prison, which was funded by the Esmée Fairbairn 'Rethinking Crime and Punishment' initiative. It is written by leading authorities in the field, and provides a comprehensive, authoritative and wide-ranging review of the range of issues associated with the use of noncustodial sanctions, examining experiences in Scotland and Northern Ireland as well as England and Wales.

Handbook of Basic Principles and Promising Practices on Alternatives to Imprisonment

Handbook of Basic Principles and Promising Practices on Alternatives to Imprisonment
Author: Dirk Van Zyl Smit
Publisher:
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Introduces the reader to the basic principles central to understanding alternatives to imprisonment as well as descriptions of promising practices implemented throughout the world. This handbook offers information about alternatives to imprisonment at various stages of the criminal justice process.

Alternatives to Prison

Alternatives to Prison
Author: Stephen Stanley
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1984
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Stephen Stanley and Mary Baginsky examine and evaluate the range of non-custodial sentences available to the courts, discussing their effectiveness, and exploring the often complex issues they raise. Drawing on a wide range research literature, this is both a clear and informative synthesis of thinking on a pressing problem and an important contribution to the wider debate about how society should deal with crime and criminals.

Alternatives to Prison Sentences

Alternatives to Prison Sentences
Author: J. Junger-Tas
Publisher: Kugler Publications
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1994
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9789062991112

This report surveys and summarizes the literature on the use of alternative sanctions in 12 western countries with a particular focus on its effectiveness and efficiency.

Alternatives to Prison

Alternatives to Prison
Author: Craig Russell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2015-02-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1681461056

In 2003, there were almost seven million criminals in the United States. But only about two million of them were behind bars. In Alternatives to Prison, you'll learn why those other five million people are out on parole or probation. You'll also learn about: rehabilitation, community service, boot camps, day reporting, house arrest, and what the future may hold for other alternatives to prison.

Sensible Justice

Sensible Justice
Author: David C. Anderson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1998-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781565843899

On any given day in America, more than 1.5 million people are locked up in state prisons and local jails, at costs that approach $20,000 per inmate each year. Crime and incarceration generate heated, but often contradictory, political debate; voters consider prisons the only real sanction for crime, but adamantly resist new taxes to pay for them. Sensible Justice explores creative solutions some states and cities nationwide have devised to tackle the prison problem.

Alternatives to Prison

Alternatives to Prison
Author: Antony A. Vass
Publisher: Sage Publications (CA)
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1990
Genre: Law
ISBN:

An outline and critical appraisal of alternatives to custody, this book is written in response to escalating prison costs, severe overcrowding and rising recidivism rates. It assesses the validity of punishment in the community as a means of solving some of these problems.

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Are Prisons Obsolete?
Author: Angela Y. Davis
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1609801040

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly,the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom. The brutal, exploitative (dare one say lucrative?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men, and women). Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable. In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration", and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole.

Prison by Any Other Name

Prison by Any Other Name
Author: Maya Schenwar
Publisher: The New Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 162097701X

With a new afterword from the authors, the critically praised indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration” Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But in a searing, “cogent critique” (Library Journal), Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law reveal that many of these so-called reforms actually weave in new strands of punishment and control, bringing new populations who would not otherwise have been subject to imprisonment under physical control by the state. Whether readers are seasoned abolitionists or are newly interested in sensible alternatives to retrograde policing and criminal justice policies and approaches, this highly praised book offers “a wealth of critical insights” that will help readers “tread carefully through the dizzying terrain of a world turned upside down” and “make sense of what should take the place of mass incarceration” (The Brooklyn Rail). With a foreword by Michelle Alexander, Prison by Any Other Name exposes how a kinder narrative of reform is effectively obscuring an agenda of social control, challenging us to question the ways we replicate the status quo when pursuing change, and offering a bolder vision for truly alternative justice practices.