Tackling prison overcrowding by Mike Hough

Tackling prison overcrowding by Mike Hough

Tackling prison overcrowding is a response to controversial proposals for prisons and sentencing set out in by Lord Patrick Carter's Review of Prisons, published in 2007. The Carter review proposed the construction of vast 'Titan' prisons to deal with the immediate problem of prison overcrowding, the establishment of a Sentencing Commission as a mechanism for keeping judicial demand for prison places in line with supply, along with further use of the private sector, including private sector management methods. Tackling prison overcrowding comprises nine chapters by leading academic experts, who expose these proposals to critical scrutiny. They take the Carter Report to task for construing the problems too narrowly, in terms of efficiency and economy, and for failing to understand the wider issues of justice that need addressing. They argue that the crisis of prison overcrowding is first and foremost a political problem - arising from penal populism - for which political solutions need to be found. This accessible report will be of interest to policy makers, probation practitioners, academics and other commentators on criminal policy.

Mike Hough is Professor of Criminal Policy at the School of Law, King's College London, and Director of the Institute for Criminal Policy Research.

Rob Allen is Director of the International Centre for Prison Studies, School of Law, King's College London.

Enver Solomon is Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, King's College London.

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ISBN 13	9781847421104
ISBN 10	1847421105
Title	Tackling prison overcrowding
Author	Mike Hough
Series	Researching Criminal Justice
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bristol University Press
Year published	2008-10-22
Number of pages	152
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