Punishing Criminals: Developing Community-Based Intermediate Sanctions

by Malcolm Davies

Punishing Criminals is about sentencing theory and policy and the attempt to identify punishments other than imprisonment. Davies argues for the need to develop more credible and effective community-based intermediate sanctions that have the confidence of the public and the officials in the criminal system. He shows how focus groups can be used to improve the process of consultation. He sees the need to locate sentencing policy decisions within the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313280339
• ISBN13: 9780313280337
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"