Paying for crime / edited by Pat Carlen and Dee Cook

By:

Carlen , Pat (ed.)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Philadelphia; Open University Press; 1989Description: 165pISBN:

335099386

Subject(s):

Sentences (Criminal Procedure) -Great Britain

DDC classification:

345.410772 PAY

Summary: 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.

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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.

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