NCJ Number
101459
Editor(s)
R Shaw,
R Hutchison
Date Published
1985
Length
105 pages
Annotation
These proceedings of a 1984 conference present seven papers and discussions of the concept of intermittent sentences and their possible application in the United Kingdom.
Abstract
Conference participants included police and correctional officials, criminal justice policymakers, members of the judiciary, academicians, lawyers, criminologists, and others. They considered the alternatives of compulsory attendance for a few hours at attendance centers, day-long attendance at probation centers, and weekend and part-time imprisonment. The implications for cost and prison overcrowding, possible public reactions, and ways the courts might use these alternatives were all discussed. Experiences in The Netherlands, Belgium, New Zealand, and the United States were also considered. The discussions also focused on experiences of limited restriction of liberty in England and Wales. Participants disagreed regarding the definition of punishment but agreed that intermittent custody was unlikely to relieve prison overcrowding and that overseas experience had little direct applicability to the United Kingdom. Data tables, appendixes, chapter reference notes.