Smart Sentencing: The Emergence of Intermediate Sanctions - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803941641 ISBN 13: 9780803941649

Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

Alternatives to prison and incarceration are explored in this volume. The contributors discuss intensive probation supervision, electronic monitoring, home confinement, shock incarceration, day reporting centres, the use of fines, split sentencing and the controversial issues surrounding alternative punishments. In conclusion, they look at the future of intermediate sanctions considering the many questions posed by criminal justice professionals and students.

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James M. Byrne, Ph.D. Dr. Byrne is Professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at University of Massachusetts Lowell, and Director of the Global Community Corrections Initiative ( www.glob.cci.org) . Professor Byrne received his undergraduate degree in Sociology (Summa cum Laude) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1977), and his Masters (1980) and Doctoral degree (1983) in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University. He is the author of several books, monographs, journal articles, and research reports on a range of criminal and juvenile justice policy and program evaluation issues. His edited texts include: The Social Ecology of Crime (1986), Smart Sentencing: The Emergence of Intermediate Sanctions (1994), The New Technology of Crime, Law and Social Control (2007), and The Culture of Prison Violence (2008).

Professor Byrne’s contribution to the field has been recognized by the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Corrections and Sentencing; in 2011, he was the recipient of both the Distinguished Scholar Award and the Marguerite Q. Warren and Ted B. Palmer Differential Intervention Award.

Dr. Byrne was recently appointed to serve as a member of the Independent Review Committee responsible for advising the U.S. Attorney General on the design and implementation of the Risk Need Assessment System that is a central component of the Congressionally mandated 2018 First Step Act, a major federal prison reform initiative. Dr. Byrne also currently serves as a member, Panel of Experts – Correctional Services Advisory and Accreditation Panel, Ministry of Justice, United Kingdom. He previously served as the External Inspector of Prisons, Office of the Inspector General, Queensland Correctional Services, Australia (2014), where he conducted an independent review of the prison assault problem across Queensland′s prisons.

 Dr. Byrne is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Victims and Offenders: An International Journal of Evidence-based Research, Policy, and Practice. Dr. Byrne also serves on the editorial boards of two other journals, Criminology and Public Policy, and the European Journal of Probation, and on National Advisory Committee for the journal, Federal Probation, a publication of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

Loyola University
Associate Dean for faculty
Professor of Criminal Justice & Psychology
College of the Arts and Sciences



Contact Information:
Email: alurigi@luc.edu

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0803941641
• ISBN 13: 9780803941649
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
• Herausgeber: Byrne James M., Lurigio Arthur J., Petersilia Joan
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar