Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
3-1992
Abstract
One of the central philosophies underlying the Report of the Royal Commission into NSW Prisons is revealed in the widely quoted aphorism, "A person is sent to prison as punishment, not for punishment". The conditions under which prisoners are contained feature crucially in assessing both the perceptions and reality of prison as a punishment. Expectations for the experience of imprisonment vary enormously. These expectations in many particular forms have been used to justify the expansion and diversification of the penal sanction. In their most modest representation, however, it is hoped that "by treating all prisoners humanely in a manner befitting their human dignity ... prisoners will at least leave prison no worse than when they entered it".
Discipline
Criminal Law | Criminal Procedure
Publication
Current Issues in Criminal Justice
Volume
3
Issue
3
First Page
339
Last Page
348
ISSN
2206-9542
Publisher
University of Sydney, Institute of Criminology
Citation
FINDLAY, Mark.
The Impact of Criminal Justice Administration on the Penal Sanction. (1992). Current Issues in Criminal Justice. 3, (3), 339-348.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2002
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