PUNISHMENT, PRISON AND THE PUBLIC - AN ASSESSMENT OF PENAL REFORM IN TWENTIETH CENTURY ENGLAND BY AN ARMCHAIR PENOLOGIST

• NCJ Number: 11796
• Author(s): R CROSS
• Date Published: 1971
• Length: 208 pages
• Sale Source: Stevens and Sons
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

FOUR LECTURES ON PENAL REFORM, IMPORTANT PENAL REFORMERS, PRISON CONDITIONS, THEORIES OF PUNISHMENT, THE REDUCTION AND AVOIDANCE OF IMPRISONMENT, AND RECIDIVISM.

Abstract

THIS BOOK CONTAINS LENGTHENED VERSIONS OF THE 1971 HAMLYN LECTURES. THE FIRST LECTURE, ON THE BACKGROUND OF ENGLISH PENAL REFORM, ADDRESSES THE EFFORTS OF FOUR PRISON COMMISSIONERS. LECTURE TWO DEALS WITH ASPECTS OF PUNISHMENT THEORIES, THE ABOLITION OF CAPITAL AND CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, THE AMELIORATION OF PRISON CONDITIONS, AND THE REFORMATIVE NATURE OF PRISONS. THE THIRD LECTURE DISCUSSES REMISSION AND PAROLE, SENTENCE LENGTH, PROBATION AND PROBATION OFFICERS, AND THE TREATMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PERSONS AND THE MENTALLY ABNORMAL OFFENDER. LECTURE FOUR REVIEWS THE PROBLEM OF RECIDIVISM, ASSESSES PROGRESS IN ENGLISH PENAL REFORM, AND SUGGESTS A NUMBER OF POSSIBLE REFORM MEASURES.