Understanding the growth in the prison population in England and Wales
Millie, A. and Jacobson, Jessica and Hough, Mike (2003) Understanding the growth in the prison population in England and Wales. Criminology and Criminal Justice 3 (4), pp. 369-387. ISSN 1748-8958.
Abstract
This study examines why the prison population in England and Wales has been rising steeply and progressively at a time when crime rates and court workloads have been falling. It concludes that while many factors are at work, the key drivers of the rise are sentencers’ increased readiness to pass custodial sentences, and when they do so, to pass longer sentences. The changes are a result of an increasingly punitive climate of opinion about crime and punishment, and inter-related changes to legislation, sentencing guidance and guideline judgments.
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| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | prisons, sentencing |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Crime & Justice Policy Research, Institute for |
| Depositing User: | Jessica Jacobson |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2018 13:48 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:41 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/22250 |
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