Abstract
The heart of the Scottish Prisons Commission's report, and the core of the choice that the Commission sets out, can be found in their first two recommendations:
1. To better target imprisonment and make it more effective, the Commission recommends that imprisonment should be reserved for people whose offences are so serious
that no other form of punishment will do and for those who pose a significant threat of serious harm to the public.
2. To move beyond our reliance on imprisonment as a means of
punishing offenders, the Commission recommends that paying back in the community should become the default position in
dealing with less serious offenders.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Prisons and Sentencing Reform: Developing policy in Scotland |
| Pages | 18-21 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Volume | 02/09 |
| Publication status | Published - 12 Dec 2008 |
Keywords
- criminal justice
- Scotland
- punishment
- social work
