Transcription of Alternatives to Imprisonment
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handbook of basic principles and promising practices on Alternatives to ImprisonmentCRIMINAL JUSTICE handbook SERIESUNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIMEV iennaUNITED NATIONSNew York, 2007 handbook ofbasic principles and promising practicesonAlternatives to ImprisonmentCRIMINAL JUSTICE handbook SERIESA cknowledgementsThe handbook on Alternatives to Imprisonment was prepared for the United Nations Officeon Drugs and Crime (UNODC) by Dirk van Zyl Smit, Professor of Comparative andInternational Penal Law, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, formerly Professor ofCriminology and Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, South handbook was reviewed at an expert group meeting held at UNODC in Vienna from31 October to 1 November 2005. UNODC wishes to acknowledge the valuable contribu-tions received from the following experts who participated in that meeting: Alvaro Mata, Yvon Dandurand, Curt T.
The handbook considers general strategies to reduce the reach of the criminal justice system and thus indirectly avoid the use of imprisonment. It also examines various aspects of alternatives to imprisonment that one may wish to consider when assessing the needs and demands of a country’s criminal justice system. Importantly, the handbook ...
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