Crime and Punishment in Britain: The Penal System in Theory, Law, and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138521483 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 373 str.

Russell Smith

Opis

This book, first published in 1965, describes the British penal system as it existed in the 1960s

Spis treści

Part One: Introduction
1: The scope and accuracy of the penal system
2: Trends and patterns in crime

Part Two: Explaining and Predicting Crime
3: Constitutional theories
4: Mental subnormality and illness
5: Maladjustment, the normal offender, and psychopathy
6: Environmental theories
7: Explanation and prediction

Part Three: The System of Disposal
8: Aims and assumptions
9: Measures for adults
10: Young offenders

Part Four: Sentencing
11: The sentencing process
12: The efficacy of sentences

Part Five: Special Categories of Offender
13: The disposal of the mentally abnormal
14: Women offenders
15: Recidivists

Part Six: General

16: Influences on the Penal System

Bibliography
Index

O autorze

Russell Smith