TY - BOOK AU - Cavadino,Michael AU - Dignan,James TI - The penal system: an introduction SN - 9781412929462 AV - HV9647 .C38 2007 U1 - 365/.942 22 PY - 2007/// CY - London, Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - SAGE Publications KW - Corrections KW - England KW - Wales KW - Imprisonment KW - Criminal justice, Administration of N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [414]-456) and index; Machine generated contents note: 1 Crisis? What Crisis? -- 2 Justifying Punishment -- 3 Explaining Punishment -- 4 Court Decisions: the Crux of the Crisis -- 5 Community Penalties and the Future of Punishment -- 6 Prisons and the Penal Crisis -- 7 Prison Privatization: Panacea or Pandora's Box? -- 8 Early Release: the Penal System's Safety Valve -- 9 Young Offenders: Systems Management or System Disaster? -- 10 Bias in the Criminal Justice System -- 11 Solving the Crisis? -- A Self-Study Guide to Electronic Sources Available on the -- Internet ER -