Abstract: With the prison population in England and Wales approaching 80,000, the case for effective and widely supported alternatives is greater than ever. Just before Christmas a major new initiative was launched aimed at boosting the confidence of judges, magistrates and the general public in community based penalties for offenders. ‘Rethinking Crime and Punishment Phase Two’ (RCP2) aims to put into practice the recommendations from the largest investigation into crime ever undertaken by a British charity – the four-year grant-making programme set up by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation in 2001 to raise the level of debate about the use of prison in the UK.
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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