By Julian V. Roberts
The final twenty 5 years have obvious dramatic rises within the felony populations of so much industrialised international locations. not able to maintain with elevated numbers of convicted offenders, governments and legal justice structures were looking new how you can keep watch over and punish offenders. One sanction followed in Canada and a few elements of Europe and the USA is group custody which makes an attempt to recreate the punitive nature of felony yet with out incarceration. This booklet analyzes the effectiveness of this strategy and explores its implications for offenders and society as an entire. It demonstrates that if appropriately conceived and administered, group custody can lessen the variety of criminal admissions and whilst advertise a number of pursuits of sentencing. in order that offenders given neighborhood custody orders are punished but additionally given the chance to alter their lives in ways in which will be very unlikely in the event that they have been in criminal. Julian V. Roberts has been operating within the zone of sentencing and public opinion for over 20 years. he's Editor of The Canadian magazine of Criminology and legal Justice and has written and co-edited ten books.
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Of course there are, and need to be, important common elements between community custody and the prison. If they were totally distinct, they would not be as interchangeable.
This lack of awareness on the part of the public is indicative of the low profile of community penalties. ) Another important impediment to the wider use of alternatives emerges from research with judges. Several studies have revealed a considerable degree of scepticism on the part of judges with respect to the alternatives to custody. Van Kalmthout (2002) identifies ‘A lack of belief in the punitive character of community sanctions’ (p. 590) as one explanation for judicial reluctance to use alternatives in the place of prison.
Americans share this view of prisons. A poll conducted in Florida asked respondents to rate the prison system on a number of critical functions. While approximately two-thirds of the sample thought that the state correctional system did a good job in preventing escapes, only 14 per cent rated the system as doing a good job in rehabilitating criminals (Florida Department of Corrections, 1997). Another reason for this public disenchantment is that prison is no longer regarded as an effective way of reducing crime.
