Paying for crime / edited by Pat Carlen and Dee Cook
Carlen , Pat (ed.)
Paying for crime / edited by Pat Carlen and Dee Cook - Philadelphia Open University Press 1989 - 165p.
The fundamental purpose of this book is to examine the jurisprudential and sentencing dilemmas that arise when, in a society where income differentials are widening, the most usual penalty favoured by the criminal courts is a fine. When people cannot pay a monetary penalty they tend either to be pushed 'down tariff towards a conditional discharge or 'up tariff' towards imprisonment. Sentencers are not happy with this situation: on the one hand they fear that when convicted persons are pushed 'down tariff' it appears that their poverty licenses crime; and, on the other, they are aware that imprisonment for fine default not only increases the already swollen prison population but also increases the likelihood of the person's reoffending. Yet, sentencers feel that 'something must be done' to mark society's disapprobation of crime.
335099386
Sentences (Criminal Procedure) -Great Britain
345.410772 PAY
Paying for crime / edited by Pat Carlen and Dee Cook - Philadelphia Open University Press 1989 - 165p.
The fundamental purpose of this book is to examine the jurisprudential and sentencing dilemmas that arise when, in a society where income differentials are widening, the most usual penalty favoured by the criminal courts is a fine. When people cannot pay a monetary penalty they tend either to be pushed 'down tariff towards a conditional discharge or 'up tariff' towards imprisonment. Sentencers are not happy with this situation: on the one hand they fear that when convicted persons are pushed 'down tariff' it appears that their poverty licenses crime; and, on the other, they are aware that imprisonment for fine default not only increases the already swollen prison population but also increases the likelihood of the person's reoffending. Yet, sentencers feel that 'something must be done' to mark society's disapprobation of crime.
335099386
Sentences (Criminal Procedure) -Great Britain
345.410772 PAY