Anthony Bottoms, Sue Rex, Gwen Robinson

'Alternatives to Prison: options for an insecure society will prove to be a quite valuable title in the field of criminology, and specifically it will come to be seen as an invaluable text in the domain of penology and sentencing. Not only have the editors drawn a strong indictment of the multiple drawbacks to imprisonment save in the cases of violent offences or offenders, they have done so in a way that is sensitive to and responsive to the needs of a collectivity that believes itself to be 'insecure', whatever may be the true state of affairs, at least as may be judged by statistics and surveys'. – Gilles Renaud, Ontario Court of Justice, Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice

• Preface 1. How Did We Get Here? 2. Trends in Crime, Victimisation and Punishment 3. Empirical Research Relevant to Sentencing Frameworks 4. Public Opinion and Community Penalties 5. Punishment as Communication 6. Diversionary and Nonsupervisory Approaches to Dealing with Offenders 7. Reparative and Restorative Approaches 8. Rehabilitative and Reintegrative Approaches 9. Electronic Monitoring and the Community Supervision of Offenders 10. Dealing with Substance-misusing Offenders in the Community 11. Intensive Projects for Prolific/Persistent Offenders 12. What Guides Sentencing Decisions? 13. Sentence Management 14. Dimensions of Difference 15. Attitudes to Punishment in Two High-crime Communities 16. Pulling some threads together

Anthony Bottoms, Sue Rex, Gwen Robinson

'Alternatives to Prison: options for an insecure society will prove to be a quite valuable title in the field of criminology, and specifically it will come to be seen as an invaluable text in the domain of penology and sentencing. Not only have the editors drawn a strong indictment of the multiple drawbacks to imprisonment save in the cases of violent offences or offenders, they have done so in a way that is sensitive to and responsive to the needs of a collectivity that believes itself to be 'insecure', whatever may be the true state of affairs, at least as may be judged by statistics and surveys'. – Gilles Renaud, Ontario Court of Justice, Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice

• Preface 1. How Did We Get Here? 2. Trends in Crime, Victimisation and Punishment 3. Empirical Research Relevant to Sentencing Frameworks 4. Public Opinion and Community Penalties 5. Punishment as Communication 6. Diversionary and Nonsupervisory Approaches to Dealing with Offenders 7. Reparative and Restorative Approaches 8. Rehabilitative and Reintegrative Approaches 9. Electronic Monitoring and the Community Supervision of Offenders 10. Dealing with Substance-misusing Offenders in the Community 11. Intensive Projects for Prolific/Persistent Offenders 12. What Guides Sentencing Decisions? 13. Sentence Management 14. Dimensions of Difference 15. Attitudes to Punishment in Two High-crime Communities 16. Pulling some threads together