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What if the dock was abolished in criminal courts?
A pamphlet for the Howard League for Penal Reform by Linda Mulcahy, Meredith Rossner and Emma Rowden
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Sentencing principles for young adults
The report sets out how principled guidelines would help judges and magistrates to understand young adults better, and provide a legal framework to achieve better sentencing decisions.
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Intelligent Justice
This publication, written by Professor Mike Hough, Professor Stephen Farrall and Professor Fergus McNeill, revisits the much argued question about the relative merits of prison and community sentences.
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The ASBO: Wrong turning, dead end
£12.95
The ASBO: Wrong Turning, Dead End Chief Superintendent Neil Wain, of Greater Manchester Police, questions the success of ASBOs in preventing further crime and anti-social behaviour. (2007)
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Parole 4 Kids
£10.00
The law requires more exacting standards of fairness on the part of authorities dealing with children. This report sets out the reasons why special mechanisms for a child going through the parole process should be introduced.
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Public legal education: An evaluation
Public Legal Education (PLE) training was delivered on the issue of resettlement, which had been identified as a major issue by U R Boss participants. This evaluation discusses the origins, developments and achievements of the PLE programme.
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Deaths on probation
The Howard League’s research, by Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe, Nicola Padfield and Jake Phillips of Cambridge University, analyses data on people dying under probation supervision and is the first time such a study has been carried out.
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Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection
£5.00
Drawing on a range of sources, including public documents and interviews, this report illustrates that the Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection (IPP) has been ill-conceived and is ultimately flawed.
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The never-ending story
This research briefing presents research on the impact of indeterminate sentencing on the prison regime.
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Overnight detention of children in police cells
£10.00
The report looks at how many children are held overnight in police cells and examines the factors that influenced whether children are held overnight.
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