penal policy

He does not think it was because of Labour's penal policy.

Punishment in the community has become the other side of Conservative penal policy.

For over a hundred years, penal policy in this country has appeared to focus on custody.

To understand the reasons for this we need to look at penal policy in a wider economic and social framework.

Then they decided to rethink penal policy along more humane lines.

However, it is inevitable that penal policy will have to be used to tighten up this area.

Penal policy is inevitably affected by the prevailing political climate.

That would leave the Home Office with policing, penal policy and the criminal law.

The period saw few radical departures in penal policy.

The lord chancellor has made a refreshing start on reforming penal policy.

A different complexion might be put on the same phenomena if instead we referred more particularly to the problems of 'criminal justice' and 'penal policy'.

Since their election victory in 1979 the Tories have followed a two-pronged penal policy.

These mainly constructive changes in penal policy were not matched by changes within the prison system.

And the current 'crisis of resources' in the penal system is an economic reality which certainly has its effects on penal policy.

In the early 1930s a tightening of Soviet penal policy caused significant growth of the prison camp population.

It leads to the pursuit of penal policies designed to win votes rather than reduce crime or promote justice.

The abolitionist stand does provide a warning beacon against which penal policies, such as prison building programmes, might be assessed.

Constructive ideals of training and rehabilitation were translated into penal policies that appeared to be meeting their objectives.

Dutch penal policy historically permitted only one prisoner per cell out of a concern for basic dignity.

I hope one of the outcomes of the debate will be to move the focus of penal policy away from custody.

Also, Soviet penal policy tightened, causing a significant growth of inmates in the Gulag.

'In its avid concern for public order and safety, implemented through police force and penal policy, the state is vindicated.

They are spread across a wide spectrum: penal policy, drug reform, asylum legislation, child poverty, health and social care, vocational education, and housing.

"That it could exist for so long, far removed from public consciousness and view, is damning evidence of the frightening shortcomings of our penal policy."

Mr. Lincoln gives an excellent survey of penal policy in Siberia from the 19th century to the gulags.