Showing papers by "Anthony Bottoms published in 1987"
TL;DR: A crime survey was conducted in seven small residential areas (pop. 2000-3000) in the city of Sheffield, varying in their housing type and offcial crime rates as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: A crime survey was conducted in seven small residential areas (pop. 2000-3000) in the city of Sheffield, varying in their housing type and offcial crime rates. Within each housing type, the suruey found that official crime statistics were valid indicators of area crime-rate differences. However, the two high-rise housing areas appeartd as more problematic in the crime survey than in oficial data, with a particularly high ratio of survey offeness to recorded offenes. Some adjacent small residential areas were found to be demographically very similar but to have very different crime rates (on offcial or survey measures); this emphasises the importance of the micro-environmental dimension in criminological studies.
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TL;DR: This paper reviewed policies adopted in England and Wales, especially since 1965, in attempts to limit the prison population and found that measures designed as "alternatives to custody" have had little success in reducing the Prison population.
Abstract: This paper reviews policies adopted in England and Wales, especially since 1965, in attempts to limit the prison population. It is shown that measures designed as ‘alternatives to custody’ have had little success in reducing the prison population. Measures designed to shorten the length of custodial sentences have had more impact on the size of the population, but at the cost of several anomalies. It is suggested that few outside observers see in present government policy any real likelihood of improving the recent rather dismal track record of attempts to limit prison use in England.
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TL;DR: The Institute of Criminology celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first course in criminology in the UK in 2011 as discussed by the authors, which was the first year of the UK's postgraduate course in criminal justice.
Abstract: If I may freely paraphrase Lady Bracknell (in The Importance of Being Earnest), to deliver an inaugural lecture one year after arrival in Cambridge seems unfortunate; to deliver it after being in post for two years looks like carelessness. Yet, as those from the Institute of Criminology will know, there is a particular reason for this timing. This month marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the University's postgraduate course in criminology, and I was myself a student on that first course, back in 1961. For me, therefore, there is a special personal satisfaction that this lecture is immediately to be followed by our formal celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the course.
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