The Virtual Prison : Community Custody and the Evolution of Imprisonment


Julian V. Roberts
Bok Engelsk 2004 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2004
Omfang
1 online resource (235 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction to the concept of community custody; The contention; The evolution of community punishments; Community custody and the Sword of Damocles; Distinguishing community custody from other sentences; Historical use of house arrest; Exclusionary and inclusive penal sanctions; The emergence of community custody: why now?; Purpose and plan of the book; Overview of contents; 2 The way we punish now; Trends in the use of custody as a sanction. - Impediments to the proliferation of alternatives to institutional custody: attitudes towards the use of custody and alternativePublic attitudes to the use of custody as a sanction; Conclusion; 3 Conceptualizing community custody; The evolution of legal punishment and the concept of imprisonment; Community custody and home confinement regimes; Community imprisonment; Community custody and the purposes of sentencing; Victim impact and input; Conclusion; 4 Representative models of community custody; Canada: conditional sentence of imprisonment; Florida community control. - Implications for critics and advocates of community custodySupport for community custody in specific cases; Replicating previous findings; Public attitudes towards house arrest; Effects of providing information about community custody; Conditions of community custody and effect upon perceptions of effectiveness; Potential for rehabilitation: prison versus community custody; The social significance of the prison; Pedagogical effect of the sentencing process; 8 Making community custody sentences work; Locate the sanction on a scale of severity. - Make the sanction an autonomous, multidimensional disposition. - New Zealand: home detentionNew South Wales: home detention order; Finland; England and Wales: suspended sentence of imprisonment; Conclusion; 5 Coming home to prison: offender perceptions andexperiences; Public stereotypes of crime and justice; Simulating the experience of home confinement; Choosing between incarceration in a prison or at home; Institutional versus community custody; Perceptions of active vs. passive sentencing; Ambiguity surrounding the conditions of community custody orders; Impact of community custody on children of the offender. - The necessity to dissemble about the sentenceLifestyle changes; Loss of spontaneity; Conclusion; 6 The effect of community custody on prison admissions; Defining net-widening; Experience in other jurisdictions; Decarceration; Direct net-widening; Conclusion; 7 Public attitudes to community custody; Perceptions of leniency in sentencing and confidence in the courts; Influence of public opinion; Public support for rehabilitation in prison; Public opinion and community custody in Canada; News media coverage of community custody; Public knowledge of community custody sentence in Canada. - Analyses the effectiveness and implications of community custody for offenders and society as a whole.
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0521536448. - 0521829593

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