Reforming Community Penalties

✍ Scribed by Rex, Sue

• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 193
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book sets out to explore the role of community penalties in sentencing, arguing that the absence of a strong intellectual framework or underpinning has hampered their development in policy and practice. The research undertaken for this book involved asking people with a particular stake in criminal justice what the point of punishment was and what the courts were trying to achieve in sentencing offenders. It identifies the role of communication as crucial, and looks at ways in which 'communication' can be used to make punishment more constructive, exploring the role of restorative process.  Read more...

Abstract: This book sets out to explore the role of community penalties in sentencing, arguing that the absence of a strong intellectual framework or underpinning has hampered their development in policy and practice. The research undertaken for this book involved asking people with a particular stake in criminal justice what the point of punishment was and what the courts were trying to achieve in sentencing offenders. It identifies the role of communication as crucial, and looks at ways in which 'communication' can be used to make punishment more constructive, exploring the role of restorative process

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover --
Reforming Community Penalties --
Title Page --
Copyright Page --
Table of Contents --
List of tables --
Acknowledgements --
1 Introduction: researching communicative penal theory --
Why penal communication? --
Insights from stakeholders --
Outline of book --
Conclusions --
2 Communicative theory --
origins, evolution and application to communicative penalties --
Introduction --
A recent history of community penalties --
Blurred boundaries: a 'customised' community order or custody plus/minus --
Re-framing punishment as communication. Applying a communicative perspective to community penalties --
Restorative justice --
Replacing or reforming criminal justice? --
Moving from theory to communication on the ground --
Conclusions --
Notes --
3 Seeking stakeholders' views of punishment --
Introduction --
I. Assessing public views --
II. Collecting stakeholders' views --
Conclusions --
Notes --
4 Prioritising penal aims --
Introduction --
I. Reconciling proportionality and crime prevention in theory --
II. Understandings of proportionality on the ground --
Conclusions --
Notes --
5 Penal messages --
Introduction. I. Overall aims of punishment --
II. Sentencing as communication --
Conclusions --
Notes --
6 Responding to punishment --
Introduction --
I. Responding to the penal message --
II. Leniency for the remorseful offender? --
III. The efficacy of the message --
Conclusions --
Notes --
7 Towards a framework for community penalties --
Introduction --
Punishment as a communicative enterprise --
Balancing retribution with crime prevention: what weight proportionality? --
Using community penalties to communicate --
A communicative framework for community penalties? --
Conclusions --
Notes --
8 Conclusions. Introduction --
Communicative penalties --
a summary --
Obstacles and opportunities --
Using community penalties to restore --
New forms of custodial and community provision --
Conclusions --
Notes --
Appendix: The questionnaire --
References --
Index.

✦ Subjects

Community-based corrections -- Great Britain.