Tackling prison overcrowding : Build more prisons? Sentence fewer offenders? /: Build more prisons? Sentence fewer offenders?. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mike Hough, Rob Allen and Enver Solomon.
• Editors: Hough, J. M; Allen, Robert, 1958 December 30; Solomon, Enver
• Contents: Introduction / Mike Hough and Enver Solomon -- The prisoners' dilemma in England and Wales / Nicola Lacey -- Building on sand : why expanding the prison estate is not the way to 'secure the future' / Carol Hedderman -- Towards more consistent and predictable sentencing in England and Wales / Jessica Jacobson, Julian Roberts and Mike Hough -- 'Titan' prisons : do size, efficiency and legitimacy matter? / Alison Liebling -- Private punishment? An examination of the expansion, development and employment relations of private prisons / Sanjiv Sachdev -- Reducing the use of custody as a sanction : a review of recent international experiences / Julian Roberts -- Where now? / Rod Morgan -- Endnote : latest developments in penal policy / Rob Allen.
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Policy Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 138 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 365.941; Prisons -- Overcrowding -- Great Britain -- Congresses; Prison administration -- Great Britain -- Congresses; Prisons -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- Congresses; Prisons; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology; Prison administration; Prisons -- Government policy; Prisons -- Overcrowding; Haftplatzkapazität; Great Britain; Großbritannien; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847421180; 1847421180
• Related ISBNs: 1847421105; 9781847421104
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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