
Making Good : Prisons, Punishment and Beyond
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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
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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