Examining the recent developments in penal policy, and asks whether they will make for more "justice", this book draws on international evidence. The author asks whether making the punishment fit the crime can lessen the excessive penalization of the poor, the mentally disordered and racial minorities. Realist and reductionist agendas are analyzed, but the real problem is society's addiction to punishment itself, maintained by the dominance of legal reasoning and the declining influence of social work and psychiatric perspectives in criminal justice decision-making. The book looks at the ideological nature of legal theory and its link with empirical issues of penal practice. Barbara Hudson has also written "Justice Through Punishment".
- ISBN10 0333495764
- ISBN13 9780333495766
- Publish Date 25 October 1993 (first published 1 January 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 December 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 192
- Language English