dc.contributor.author | Nairn, R.G. | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Zimbabwe | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-26T13:39:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-08-26T13:39:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1972-10 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Nairn, R.G. (1972) Imprisonment: Its Effectiveness and Results. The Rhodesian Law Journal, vol. 12, no.2, (pp. 232-230). UZ (formerly University College Rhodesia), Harare (formerly Salisbury) ; Department of Law. | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/6856 | |
dc.description | A legal article arguing on the futility of the penal system in archiving corrective and rehabilitative measures on the goaled offender in the then Rhodesia. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Imprisonment is ill-suited to achieve any of the traditional objects of punishment, and in practice produces the undesirable results of contamination with experienced criminals, loss of employment, character re-definition as a criminal and institutionalisation, all at considerable financial cost.
Some of these results could be avoided by more careful classification of offenders, by a system of conditional discharge and by putting more emphasis on reconciliation and restitution.
This paper was read to a conference of police officers, who found little fault with the arguments put forward but expressed very grave doubts about the practicality of any alternative to imprisonment in this country. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Department of Law, University of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe) (UZ). | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Rights | en |
dc.subject | Social Protection | en |
dc.title | Imprisonment: Its Effectiveness and Results | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.rights.holder | University of Zimbabwe (UZ) (formerly University College of Rhodesia) | en |