Penal Reform in England

The Dilemma of Penal Reform

The Dilemma of Penal Reform. By Dr. Hermann Mannheim, with a preface by Prof. A. M. Carr-Saunders. Allen & Unwin. 1939. pp. 228. 7s. 6d. This book is based on a course of public lectures given at the London School of Economics in 1938-9. Professor Carr-Saunders points ?ut that for the constructive development of Penal Reform we need, firstly, accurate systematic sociological and psychological s...

Understanding Penal Reform: The Dynamic of Change

Fascist Reform of the Penal Law in Italy, The

Money and mass incarceration: The bad, the mad, and penal reform*

Spelman’s (2009, this issue) analysis calls into question the popular contention among many antiprison activists and other penal reformers that the U.S. prison boom is bound to end soon because states just cannot afford it anymore. States have had extremely deep pockets to build more prisons even in hard times, and the availability of state revenues to pay for more prison beds has been a leadin...

The economics of clinical negligence reform in England

In Britain, the NHS spends millions of pounds a year compensating patients injured during medical treatment. As in many other jurisdictions, compensation is paid if the patient can demonstrate that treatment was supplied negligently. However, concern over the cost, effectiveness and administrative efficiency of this approach has led jurisdictions like Sweden, New Zealand and some US states to a...