The Intensive Alternative to Custody

Taylor, Emmeline; Clarke, Rebecca; McArt, Dervla

doi:10.1177/0264550513489760

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Intensive Probation

Taylor

2017

The Encyclopedia of Corrections

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Intensive probation is an intermediate sanction administered in the community. It is often considered to be a punishment that straddles the divide between community sanctions and custodial sentences in terms of severity. The rationale provided for the introduction of intensive probation is that it could potentially contribute to relieving a prison infrastructure buckling under the weight of decades of increasing incarceration. Intensive probation varies in design and execution but often encompasses a mix of frequent contact with corrections supervisors, access to treatment, community facilities, and constant monitoring facilitated by an increasingly sophisticated range of surveillance technologies.

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Intensive Probation

Taylor

2017

The Encyclopedia of Corrections

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New Directions for Research and Policy

Tata

2019

Sentencing: A Social Process

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Reducing Prison Sentencing Through Pre‐Sentence Reports? Why the Quasi‐Market Logic of ‘Selling Alternatives to Custody’ Fails

Tata

2018

Howard J Crime Justice

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A central aim of successive generations of penal reformers and governments has been to reduce the use of imprisonment in relatively less serious cases. In their various guises, pre‐sentence reports (PSRs) have been a key vehicle to promote non‐custodial ‘alternatives’ to the judicial sentencer. Yet, after decades of pursuing this strategy, a significant reduction in prison sentencing remains elusive. This article suggests that the failure of this policy strategy is, at least in part, rooted in its quasi‐market logic. It tends to construct the judicial sentencer as a metaphorical consumer in a penal marketplace, to whom the report writer must convincingly ‘sell alternatives’ to custody. Applying and developing theories of consumption as a cultural practice, it is proposed that, by its very nature, a consumerist model is bound to fail to deliver penal reduction.

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The Intensive Alternative to Custody

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Intensive Probation

Intensive Probation

New Directions for Research and Policy

Reducing Prison Sentencing Through Pre‐Sentence Reports? Why the Quasi‐Market Logic of ‘Selling Alternatives to Custody’ Fails

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