Recent publications

• Baker, K. (2010) ‘More harm than good? The language of public protection’ The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice  Vol 49(1), 42-53.

• Jacobson, J. and Hough, M. (2010)  Unjust Deserts: Imprisonment for Public Protection, London, Prison Reform Trust, available online: http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/uploads/documents/unjustdesertsfinal.pdf

• Mauer, M. (2011)  ‘Addressing racial disparities in incarceration’, Prison Journal Supplement  91(3) 87S-101S.

• Ministry of Justice (2011) Breaking the Cycle: Government Response, Cm 8070. London, Ministry of Justice.

• Mitchell, B. and Roberts, J. (2012) ‘Sentencing for Murder, Exploring Public Knowledge and Public Opinion in England and Wales’ Br J Criminol Vol 52, 141-158.

• Ramsay, M. (2011) The early years of the DSPD (Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder) Programme: results of two process studies, Research Summary 4/11. Ministry of Justice, London.

• Simon, J. (2011) ‘Mass incarceration on trial’ Punishment and Society 13(3) 251-5.

• Trebilcock, J. and Weaver, T. (2011) Multi-method Evaluation of the Management, Organisation and Staffing (MEMOS) in High Security Services for People with Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD).

• Trebilcock, J. and Weaver, T. (2011) Study of the Legal Status of Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) Patients and Prisoners, and the Impact of DSPD Status on Parole Board and Mental Health Review Tribunal Decision-Making.

• Whitty, N. (2011) ‘Human rights as risk: UK prisons and the management of rightsand risks’, Punishment and Society 13:2, 123-48.

Cases

• Brown v Plata   563 US 2011

• Coleman v Schwarzenegger/Plata v Schwarzenegger, US District Court No. Civ. S-90-0520 (4 August 2009)

• Kehoe [2009] 1 Cr App R (S) 41.

• McNee, Gunn and Russell [2008] 1 Cr App R (S) 108.

International issues: Incapacitation

• Brown, M. (1998) 'Serious Violence and Dilemmas of Sentencing: A Comparison of Three Incapacitation Policies' Crim. L.R. 710. [This article examines data from New Zealand to compare three possible incapacitation strategies. It also critiques those provisions found in that jurisdiction and elsewhere which are based on making a distinction between 'ordinary' offenders and dangerous offenders.]

• Cavadino, P. and Dignan, J. (2006) Penal Systems: A Comparative Approach, London, Sage. [In chapter 3 the authors discuss some of the factors influencing the expansion of imprisonment in the United States.]

Early release

• Amos, M. (2004) 'R v Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Anderson - Ending the Home Secretary's Sentencing Role' MLR Vol 67 108-123.

• Gullick, M. (2004) 'Sentencing and Early Release of Fixed Term Prisoners' Crim. L.R. 653-662. [This article reviews the provisions in the Criminal Justice Act 2003.]

• Shute, S. (2004) 'Punishing murderers: release procedures and the "tariff";, 1953-2004'. Crim.L.R. 873-895.

• Valier, C. (2003) 'Minimum Terms of Imprisonment in Murder, Just Deserts and the Sentencing Guidelines' Crim. L.R. 326-335.

Incapacitation and public protection

• Ashworth, A. (2004) 'Criminal Justice Act 2003: Part 2: Criminal Justice Reform - principle, human rights and public protection, Crim. L.R. 516-32.

• K Baker (February, 2010) ‘More harm than good/ The language of public protection’ The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice    49(1) 42-53.
  Kerry Baker considers the issues of risk and public protection and problems with the use of the term ‘harm’and ‘serious harm’ and  the implications for probation practice.

• Beckett, K. and Western, B. (2001) 'Governing social marginality: Welfare, incarceration and the transformation of state policy', in D. Garland (ed.) Mass Imprisonment. London, Sage, 35-50.

• Van Zyl Smit, D. and Ashworth, A. (2004) 'Disproportionate Sentences as Human Rights Violations' MLR vol 67(4) 541-560.

Managing criminality: risk and dangerousness

• Beck, U. (1992) The Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. London, Sage. [An influential theoretical analysis of the role of risk in (post) modern society.]

• Bennett, J. (2008) The social costs of dangerousness: prison and the dangerous classes, Centre for crime and Justice Studies, King’s College, London. [Available at www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/dangerousness.html]

• Floud, J. (1982) 'Dangerousness and Criminal Justice' Brit. J. of Criminology Vol 22. No. 3, 213.

• Frieberg, A. (2000) 'Guerillas in our midst? Judicial responses to governing the dangerous' in M. Brown and J. Pratt (eds) Dangerous Offenders. London, Routledge.

• Hannah-Moffat, K. and O-Malley, P. (eds) (2007) Gendered Risks. London: Routledge-Cavendish

• Hebenton, B. and Seddon, T. (2009) ‘From Dangerousness to Precaution: Managing Sexual and Violent Offenders in an Insecure and Uncertain Age’ Br J Criminol. Vol 49: 343-362. http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/49/3/343?etoc

• Kemshall, H. (2003) Understanding Risk in Criminal Justice. Milton Keynes, Open University Press. [This book offers detailed introductory material on concepts of risk and risk assessment generally.]

• Lyon, D. (ed) (2006) Theorising Surveillance: the panopticon and beyond. Cullompton, Willan.