Making Good : Prisons, Punishment and Beyond

by Wright, Martin

Edition: 2nd

ISBN13: 9781904380412

ISBN10: 1904380417

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2008-03-11

Publisher(s): Waterside Pr

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Summary

Second edition with additional material by the author, and a new foreword by one of the UK's leading penal reformers. * Classic and original - one of the works that paved the way for the development of the Restorative Justice movement * Argues that the real need is for fundamental rethinking of crime and punishment, rather than short-term tinkering with a prison system that is in an intolerable state of crisis. * Demonstrates that neither the conservative idea of deterrence through punishment nor the liberal ideal of rehabilitation has worked in practice. * Proposes the basis for a radical but carefully worked out practical philosophy which would place the emphasis on the offender making amends to the victim and society for the damage caused.

Author Biography

Martin Wright is a former Director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, Policy Officer of Victim Support and Librarian of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology. He is a Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, Leicester.

Foreword
Extracts from the Original Foreword
Prisons, Punishment and the Public	p. 19
Why Are Prisons Tolerated?	p. 19
Obsolete Punishments	p. 22
Public Attitudes to Punishment	p. 24
Prisons: What They Are Like	p. 30
Isolation	p. 31
Homelessness	p. 36
Work, Education and Prisons	p. 38
Psychological Effects of Imprisonment	p. 42
Physical Conditions	p. 46
Prisons: Endemic Abuses	p. 51
Excessive Security and Control	p. 51
Punishments Permitted by Law	p. 59
Unlawful Violence	p. 60
Restrictions on the Right to Know the Rules	p. 66
The Law's Failure to Protect Prisoners	p. 68
Imprisoning the Disadvantaged	p. 72
Keeping More People out of Prison	p. 77
Fewer Offences	p. 77
Fewer Prosecutions	p. 83
Diversion after Conviction	p. 84
Fewer Imprisonable Offences	p. 86
People Who Should not Go to Prison	p. 89
Constructive Penalties	p. 96
Nominal Penalties	p. 96
Using Offenders' Good Qualities	p. 97
Using the Community's Good Qualities	p. 99
Enabling	p. 101
Too little Punishment - Or Too Much Control?	p. 104
Supervision: A Constructive Penalty?	p. 105
Half Way to Imprisonment	p. 109
Shorter Prison Sentences	p. 111
The Remaining Prisoners	p. 115
How Many Prisons?	p. 115
The Aims of Imprisonment	p. 118
The Regime in the Remaining Prisons	p. 122
A Modern Role of Prison Management	p. 128
Prison Rules-O.K?	p. 137
The Process of Release	p. 144
Bringing Change About	p. 148
The Executive Structure; Division of Responsibility	p. 148
Policy: Encouraging New Ideas	p. 156
Crime Prevention	p. 162
Involving the Public	p. 166
The Sentence of the Court: What Can It Achieve?	p. 171
The Role of Punishment in Criminal Justice	p. 171
The Search for an Alternative	p. 192
Keeping Crime in Check	p. 209
General Preventive Strategies	p. 210
Community Action to Reduce Crime	p. 214
Strategies Against Specific Crimes	p. 219
Crime and the Social Climate	p. 229
Individual Restraint	p. 238
Making Amends: A Two-Way Process	p. 240
Drawbacks of Traditional Practice	p. 241
The Aims of the System	p. 243
Suiting the Means to the End	p. 246
The Basis of Making Amends	p. 252
Natural Consequences	p. 255
When the Voluntary Principle is not Enough	p. 258
Amends by the Community	p. 266
References	p. 271
Index	p. 293
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