Rethinking Community Sanctions

Julie Stubbs is Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney, Australia.Sophie Russell is Research Associate for the Rethinking Community Sanctions Project at UNSW Sydney and Doctoral Candidate at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.Eileen Baldry is Professor of Criminology at UNSW Sydney, Australia.David Brown is Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney, Australia.Chris Cunneen is Professor of Criminology, Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.Melanie Schwartz is Associate Professor and Deputy Dean (Education) at the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney, Australia.

What do community sanctions look like in Australia in the 21st century? What can be done to realize their progressive potential and minimize their insidious effects? This lively, theoretically informed, empirically grounded book, written by a group of scholars with a deep knowledge of Australia’s penal system, opens up new ways of thinking about a form of sanctioning that is widely used but little understood.

• Chapter 1. Rethinking Community Sanctions Chapter 2. Convergence and Divergence in Community Sanctions Policies Chapter 3. Legal Processes and Community Sanctions Chapter 4. Public Opinion, Signal Crimes and Narrowing 'Experiential Distance' Chapter 5. ‘Less Than More Likely Than Not’: Risk Mentalities, Technologies and Practices Chapter 6. Whither Rehabilitation? Chapter 7. Groups Vulnerable to Penal Control Chapter 8. Politics and Democracy: Opening up the Community Sanctions Landscape