TY - BOOK ID - 80827680 TI - The virtual prison : community custody and the evolution of imprisonment. PY - 2004 SN - 9780511520976 9780521829595 9780521536448 9781107321724 1107321727 0511520972 9781107316331 1107316332 9781107317291 1107317290 0521829593 0521536448 1139810065 9781139810067 1107160413 9781107160415 1107318149 9781107318144 1299399436 9781299399433 1107315352 9781107315358 PB - Cambridge Cambridge university press DB - UniCat KW - Community-based corrections KW - Home detention KW - Confinement, Home KW - Detention, Home KW - Home confinement KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Detention of persons KW - Community corrections KW - Community treatment programs KW - Corrections in the community KW - Alternatives to imprisonment KW - Community-based corrections. KW - Services correctionnels communautaires KW - Assignation à domicile (Droit pénal) KW - Social Sciences KW - Sociology KW - Community-based corrections - Canada KW - SERVICES CORRECTIONNELS COMMUNAUTAIRES KW - ASSIGNATION A DOMICILE KW - CANADA UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80827680 AB - The last twenty-five years have seen dramatic rises in the prison populations of most industrialised nations. Unable to keep up with increased numbers of convicted offenders, governments and criminal justice systems have been seeking new ways to control and punish offenders. One sanction adopted in Canada and some parts of Europe and the US is community custody which attempts to recreate the punitive nature of prison but without incarceration. This book analyses the effectiveness of this approach and explores its implications for offenders and society as a whole. It demonstrates that if properly conceived and administered, community custody can reduce the number of prison admissions and at the same time promote multiple goals of sentencing. So that offenders given community custody orders are punished yet also given the opportunity to change their lives in ways that would be impossible if they were in prison. ER -