Handbook of basic principles and promising practices on alternatives to imprisonment /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
United Nations,
2007.
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| Series: | Criminal justice handbook series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Introducing alternatives to imprisonment
- 1.1. Why consider alternatives to imprisonment
- 1.2. What is to be done?
- 1.3. Who should develop the strategy to alternatives to imprisonment?
- 1.4. Potential challenges
- 1.5. The role of the United Nations
- 2. Limiting the criminal justice system's reach
- 2.1. Decriminalization
- 2.2. Diversion
- 2.3. Who should act?
- 3. Pre-trial, pre-conviction and pre-sentencing processes
- 3.1. General
- 3.2. Alternatives to pre-trial detention
- 3.3. Considerations in implementing alternatives to pre-trial detention
- 3.4. Infrastructure requirements for alternatives to pre-trial detention
- 3.5 Who should act?
- 4. Sentencing and alternative punishments
- 4.1. Sentencing
- 4.2. Possible alternatives to sentences of imprisonment
- 4.3. Specific non-custodial sentences
- 4.4. Infrastructure requirements for sentencing alternatives
- 4.5. Choosing alternatives to imprisonment at the sentencing stage
- 4.6. Who should act?
- 5. Early release
- 5.1. Forms of early release
- 5.2. Early release: concerns and responses
- 5.3. Early release on compassionate grounds
- 5.4. Conditional release and its administrative infrastructure
- 5.5. Who should act?
- 6. Special categories
- 6.1. General
- 6.2. Children
- 6.3. Drug offenders
- 6.4. Mental illness
- 6.5. Women
- 6.6. Over-represented groups
- 7. Toward a coherent strategy
- 7.1. Knowledge base
- 7.2. Political initiatives
- 7.3. Legislative reform
- 7.4. Infrastructure and resources
- 7.5. Net-widening
- 7.6. Monitoring
- 7.7. Promotion of alternatives
- 7.8. The media and alternatives to imprisonment
- 7.9. Justice and equality
- Conclusion.
