Probation Day Centres as an Alternative to Custody
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8401106 |
|---|---|
| Authors | ANTONY A VASS, ALAN WESTON, A F WESTON |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 189-206 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047989 |
| OpenAlex | W2306864109 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 10 |
The authors briefly review the ‘dispersal of discipline’ tesis and suggest that the assumption that alternatives to custody do more harm than good by widening the net of surveillance and social control has serious limitations. They argue that there are a number of other factors at play that are not often considered by critics (e.g. the sentencing practices of courts) and which, if taken into account, could explain the assumed failure of alternatives to check the prison population. In order to demonstrate the point that some alternatives to custody may be successful in diverting some offenders from custody, they examine the workings of a probation day centre which operates as an alternative to custody under the provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 1982, Schedule XI 4(B)
Business · Criminology · Library science · Management · Officer · Political science · Service (business) · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · History · Law · Social Work
Punishment and welfare
Visions of social control
The politics of abolition
Limiting Prison Use
Moving Away from Help
The rising use of imprisonment
Alternatives to Prison
Ethnic Minorities, Probation and the Magistrates' Courts
The Community Service Order as a Public and Private Enterprise
Crime and Punishment
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2004 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |