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The Demise Of Corrections Fifteen Years On: Any Hope For Progressive Punishment?, Mark Findlay
The Demise Of Corrections Fifteen Years On: Any Hope For Progressive Punishment?, Mark Findlay
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
A decade and a half ago I wrote an article entitled The Demise of Corrections (Findlay 1988). The central thesis was that penal correctionalism had failed because it was piecemeal and lacked the support of a well developed commitment to alternative strategies to the prison. The criticism is sharper in the current context of imprisonment in NSW where correctional expectations continue to disappoint (and be disappointed), despite a recent revival of interest in 'what works' offender management programmes.
Prisons As Progressive Punishment? The State Of Corrective Services, Mark Findlay
Prisons As Progressive Punishment? The State Of Corrective Services, Mark Findlay
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
In the early days of his third term as Premier of New South Wales, Bob Carr challenged his government to move away from current law and order politics and to come up with a more progressive approach to punishment. Central to this would be a reconsideration of the place of the prison in criminal justice. Prisons, by their nature and the communities they house, suffer more acutely from the factors of social exclusion that characterise the underprivileged sectors of Australian society. Without the exacerbation of a custodial experience, these characteristics alone militate against the successful reintegration of prisoners back into …