Russell Smith

Crime and Punishment in Britain

The Penal System in Theory, Law, and Practice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9781138521483
• ISBN-10: 1138521485
• Artikelnr.: 50497775

Autorenporträt

Russell Smith

Inhaltsangabe

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