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Economy, Punishment, and Imprisonment

NCJ Number
121789
Journal
Contemporary Crises Volume: 13 Issue: 4 Dated: special issue (December 1989) Pages: 327-349
Author(s)
C Hale
Date Published
1989
Length
23 pages
Annotation
Recent trends in sentencing in England and Wales are discussed and related to the debate concerning the relationship between unemployment and imprisonment.
Abstract
The shift towards a more punitive justice system are (sic) traced to the abandonment of full employment economic policies in the mid-1970s. 3 tables, 36 references. (Author abstract)