Publication Type

Book Chapter

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

1-2004

Abstract

In the early days of his third term as Premier of New South Wales, Bob Carr challenged his government to move away from current law and order politics and to come up with a more progressive approach to punishment. Central to this would be a reconsideration of the place of the prison in criminal justice. Prisons, by their nature and the communities they house, suffer more acutely from the factors of social exclusion that characterise the underprivileged sectors of Australian society. Without the exacerbation of a custodial experience, these characteristics alone militate against the successful reintegration of prisoners back into the community. Any revision of punishment policy, therefore, requires more than retarding spiralling imprisonment rates. For those who do end up in gaol, and for those employed to manage them, the prison environment requires significant redevelopment if inmates are not to leave prison more maladjusted than when they went in.

Discipline

Australian Studies | Criminal Law

Publication

The State of the States 2004

First Page

43

Last Page

52

Publisher

Evatt Foundation

City or Country

Sydney

Additional URL

http://evatt.org.au/books/prisons-progressive-punishment.html

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