The papers were presented at the Fulbright Colloquium on Penal Theory and Penal Practice held at the University of Stirling in England in September 1992. The Colloquium brought together theorists, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners from different disciplines, backgrounds, and countries. Participants included legal theorists, sociologists, criminologists, philosophers, psychologists, civil servants, judges, probation officers, and prison administrators. Individual papers focus on sentencing reform, the corrections crisis in the United Kingdom, proportionality and parsimony in sentencing, just deserts, and the role of imprisonment. Additional papers focused on the changing aims of the English probation system, community service orders, the use of fines, criminal justice responses to domestic assault and violence against women, alternative dispute settlement, and differing perspectives of the view that imprisonment should be abolished in Great Britain. Chapter notes and reference lists