Product Description: This book offers a transatlantic, interdisciplinary perspective on the crisis in penal policy facing the governments of both Britain and the United States. Some of the issues addressed include: sentencing guidelines; the organization of prisons and their function; the use of non-custodial sentences and "informal justice"; and women and the criminal justice system...read more

Product Description: "Crime and punishment" brings together the latest views on the theoretical and practical justifications of punishment for crime. This collection of chapter presented at a PACC symposium primarily offers a retributivist view but shows that retributivism is a possible position for civil libertarians as well as conservatives...read more