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Abstract:This paper draws on the results of the Cambridge Family Ties Project which investigated ties from prisoners' points of view. It argues that current policy and practice in relation to foreign national prisoners can be improved. The neglect of this group means that there are no accurate statistics concerning them. However, all the indications are that they form a significant proportion of the UK prison population, especially among those with longer sentences. Because of their distance from their families, lack of fluent English, and cultural isolation, these prisoners often experience a much harsher prison regime than their UK counterparts. Many of the recent policy changes intended to support the family ties of prisoners have little or no impact for foreign national prisoners. A number of suggestions are made about steps that might improve matters. Finally, the policy leading to the long prison sentences that most non‐UK prisoners receive as drug couriers is questioned. While such policies can be devastating, not only for those imprisoned, but also their families, there seems little evidence that they have any deterrent effect. It has been suggested that arrested couriers should simply be deported and that the British tax payer would thus be spared the considerable cost of maintaining these people in UK prison

ISSN:0265-5527    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2311.1995.tb00838.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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Abstract:This paper presents the findings of a pilot study of the particular needs of black and Asian prisoners' families. It is in two parts. First, a survey of support groups to assess the use and provision of services for black/Asian families. Secondly, a series of interviews conducted with black and Asian family members.

ISSN:0265-5527    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2311.1995.tb00839.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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Abstract:This paper examines the key role which the Court of Appeal has played in shaping sentencing policy in the last 20 years. It is argued that the continued divergence between judicial objectives and executive policy‐making provides a significant obstacle to penal reform. The analysis examines the interpretation of government legislation and initiatives by the Court of Appeal, Court of Appeal sentencing initiatives, and the impact of the Attorney Generals reference procedure. It is suggested that the solution to the problem lies in the establishment of flexible national guidelines which have judicial and executive approval based on agreed sentencing objectiv

ISSN:0265-5527    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2311.1995.tb00840.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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Abstract:In most industrialised countries a specialised justice system for juvenile crime exists. The discussions which surround this approach revolve around the balance to be struck when combining educative aims with penal justice principles. The continued quest for an ideal combination seems to be a ‘mission impossible’. A way must be found to resolve this impasse. Experiments with restorative justice are an extremely promising avenue for further exploration. In doing so, far more than a simple alternative technique seems to be at issue, but goes to the roots of the social and ethical governance of our societ

ISSN:0265-5527    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2311.1995.tb00841.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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Abstract:There is a considerable amount of research on the differential processing and sentencing of women offenders in the criminal justice system. There is considerably less on the influence on women practitioners at all stages of the process. This article examines the assessment of crime seriousness by probation officers and in particular questions whether gender has an influence on that decision.

ISSN:0265-5527    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2311.1995.tb00842.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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Abstract:In this article David Garland's (1985) seminal work Punishment and Welfare is discussed in relation to English prisons between the above dates. I suggest a rebuttal of Garland's critique of Michel Foucault's (1979) earlier work on 19th century penal developments because this critique is a foundation stone of Garland's general thesis about the origins of modern penality. Secondly it is argued that Garland took insufficient account of the influence of positivist evolutionist theory on penal thought in the mid‐ Victorian era and that his assumptions about the classical foundations of the totality of Victorian penality are oversimplified. Lastly, I argue that, notwithstanding, Garland was wrong to emphasise eugenic and neo‐Darwinian theory as a dominant intellectual and operational foundation of penality between 1895 and 1914.In fact the empirical case of prisons shows that traditional moral reformatory methods and classicism were the major theoretical foundations of prisons and borstals between 1895 and 1914 although significant projects based on the new mental science and neo‐Darwinian positivism were cautiously and experimentally

ISSN:0265-5527    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2311.1995.tb00843.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0265-5527    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2311.1995.tb00844.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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Book reviewed in this article:The Oxford Handbook of CriminologyMike Maguire, Rod Morgan and Robert ReinerPathways to the Management of Mentally‐Ill Offenders in the Criminal Justice System A. Manna, R. Kurosawa and K. Ham

ISSN:0265-5527    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2311.1995.tb00845.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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ISSN:0265-5527    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2311.1995.tb00846.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY