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1. Reforming Community Penalties

   By Sue Rex

   This book sets out to explore the role of community penalties in sentencing, arguing that the absence of a strong intellectual framework or underpinning has hampered their development in policy and practice. The research undertaken for this book involved asking people with a particular stake in...

   Published April 30th 2005 by Willan
2. Alternatives to Prison

   Edited by Anthony Bottoms, Sue Rex, Gwen Robinson

   As the UK and many other western societies face up to the consequences of a rapidly increasing prison population, so the search for alternative approaches to punishment and dealing with offenders has become an increasingly urgent priority for government policy and society as a whole. This book...

   Published October 31st 2004 by Willan
3. Community Penalties

   Edited by Anthony Bottoms, Loraine Gelsthorpe, Sue Rex

   Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

   Community penalties are punishments that, in the courts' sentencing tariff, come between imprisonment and fines. They include electronic tagging, supervised unpaid work, and compulsory participation by offenders in treatment programmes.Recent years have seen many changes in England in the field of...

   Published June 30th 2002 by Willan
4. Reform and Punishment

   Edited by Sue Rex, Michael Tonry

   Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

   In this book a group of leading authorities in the field address the key issues surrounding the future of sentencing in Britain, in the light particularly of the highly influential Halliday Report. These proposals for reform amount to the single most ambitious and comprehensive set of proposals for...

   Published June 30th 2002 by Willan