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Abstract:The rate of suicide amongst women prisoners is seriously underestimated. The relatively small numbers of women in prison often leads to the neglect of their specific needs and concern. Their suicide rate in prison has been increasing. Women prisoners talk about family and child‐care concern more often than male prisoners do. There may also be other reasons for their greater vulnerability in prison. It may be that the fact of imprisonment has a different and more specific impact on women than upon men. The subjective, qualitative aspects of the prison experience are rarely investigated. As a result, the pains of imprisonment are tragically underestimate

ISSN:0265-5527    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2311.1994.tb00790.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract:In this paper we examine the process whereby problem pages contribute to turning what some would perceive to be private troubles' into ‘public issues’, while offering public acknowledgemenl of crimes committed as well as solace and advice to victims of sex crimes. The two examples used, ‘male rape’ and ‘underage sex’ illustrate the complex role of moral arbiter, whereby agony aunts and uncles act as social barometers, reflecting the confusion surrounding definitions of sex crimes. By examining problem pages we learn more about how society defines the borderlines between private problems and public, crimin

ISSN:0265-5527    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2311.1994.tb00791.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract:In the latter half of the 1980s official criminal justice policy on drug misuse in the UK began to take on an increasingly bifurcated form. An emphasis on harm reduction and diversion into treatment and away from the penal system has (in theory) come to inform the approach to those implicated in drug or other crime because of dependency (cultural, pharmacological and psychological). However, at the same time proactive enforcement measures have been encouraged and the courts have been provided with extra retributive powers ‐ both changes targetted on the traffickers whose commitment to profit and enterprise enables the illicit market to function and flourish. By looking at recent statistical trends in sentencing and law enforcement it is argued that the courts and the police have not followed injunctions to divert the user and punish the cynical dealer in clear cut ways and that the criminal justice and penal systems continue to deal, in judicial forms, with the users of drugs rather than the ‘demons’ of populist and political mythol

ISSN:0265-5527    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2311.1994.tb00792.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract:Evolution of the Italian penal legislation on illicit drugs. The ‘autonomous’ evolution of the spread of drugs and the lack of substantial response to the attempts at legal control. Structural socio‐economic change in the country. The connection between this change and the spread of drugs. The influence of public opinion and its effects on the legislative refonn. Western culture's illusion as to the feasibility of social control in terms mereb of penal sanc

ISSN:0265-5527    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2311.1994.tb00793.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract:Intermediate punishment as referred to in the United States or intermediate sanctions as referred to in England ad Wales are emerging as major crime control refonn strategies despite the absence of empirical justification for these strategies. The essential goal underlying these strategies is to provide more proportionate and tough sentencing alternatives to prisons and nominal probation. This paper provides an assessment of several salient operational natures of a Florida intermediate punishment programme especially in relation to the programme's demonstrated tendency to file up sanctions' on participating offenders. Various sanctioning agent perceptions, associated decision making and programme outcomes are explored in relation to the ‘piling up of sanctions’ process. The paper concludes with a discussion of several policy implications raised by the reported findings for programmes in England and Wales and the United Sta

ISSN:0265-5527    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2311.1994.tb00794.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0265-5527    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2311.1994.tb00795.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0265-5527    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2311.1994.tb00796.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0265-5527    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2311.1994.tb00797.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY