Ebook: Community penalties : change and challenges
Author: Bottoms A. E., Gelsthorpe Loraine, Rex Sue
- Tags: Community-based corrections -- Great Britain -- Congresses., Criminal justice Administration of -- Great Britain -- Congresses., Community-based corrections., Criminal justice Administration of., Great Britain.
- Series: Cambridge criminal justice series
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Routledge
- City: London, Cambridge, England), Great Britain
- Language: English
- pdf
Community penalties are punishments that, in the courts' sentencing tariff, come between imprisonment and fines. They include electronic tagging, supervised unpaid work, and compulsory participation by offenders in treatment programmes. Recent years have seen many changes in England in the field of community penalties. These have included the rapid development of accredited offending behaviour programmes, and some Read more...
Abstract: Community penalties are punishments that, in the courts' sentencing tariff, come between imprisonment and fines. They include electronic tagging, supervised unpaid work, and compulsory participation by offenders in treatment programmes. Recent years have seen many changes in England in the field of community penalties. These have included the rapid development of accredited offending behaviour programmes, and some new court orders such as the Referral Order for juveniles, based on the principles of restorative justice. Organisationally, too, the year 2001 sees a major change with the establish