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Making Good - Prisons, Punishment and Beyond (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Making Good - Prisons, Punishment and Beyond (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Second edition with additional material by the author, and a new
foreword by one of the UK's leading penal reformers. Classic and
original - one of the works that paved the way for the development
of the Restorative Justice movement. Argues that the real need is
for fundamental rethinking of crime and punishment, rather than
short-term tinkering with a prison system that is in an intolerable
state of crisis. Demonstrates that neither the conservative idea of
deterrence through punishment nor the liberal ideal of
rehabilitation has worked in practice and proposes the basis for a
radical but carefully worked out practical philosophy which would
place the emphasis on the offender making amends to the victim and
society for the damage caused. 'All those concerned with the
monstrosity that is our current prison system, the unchecked growth
of the criminal justice system as the response to social problems
and the poverty of ideas in dealing with the harm caused by crime
will find a re-read of this classic text very worthwhile': Baroness
Vivien Stern (from the Foreword). 'The real value of this book is
surely in the philosophical arguments that he puts forward to
support his thinking. He forces the reader to think through what
society's expectations are when someone is sent to prison. Is it to
deter against future offending or to deter others? To isolate the
criminal from society for the protection of the public? Or is it
for rehabilitation? The aims of imprisonment are expounded at
length later in the book together with an appraisal of the ethical
and practical aspects of punishment, deterrence, denunciation and
of justice itself. Making Good provides a demanding, but
fascinating read. Although the description of prison life a quarter
of a century ago and the thinking behind the policies that
determined it, belong to the era in which it was written, the
arguments Martin Wright puts forward about justice and punishment
still remain pertinent today: ' Internet Law Book Reviews. 'Engages
with some diverse elements of imprisonment and with contemporary
penal issues': Helen Poole, Coventry University. Martin Wright is a
former Director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, Policy
Officer of Victim Support, and Librarian of the Cambridge Institute
of Criminology. He is a Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Health
and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, Leicester, and the
author of Restoring Respect for Justice and Justice for Victims and
Offenders. He is joint editor of Mediation and Criminal Justice:
Victims, Offenders and Community. A founder member of the
Restorative Justice Consortium, he is currently a member of its
board, and acts as a voluntary mediator in the Lambeth Mediation
Service, London. As an active member of the European Forum for
Restorative Justice he has spoken at many international
conferences, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for
Conflict Resolution, Bulgaria.
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