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.
imprisonment will reduce overcrowding and make it easier to manage prisons in a way that will allow states to meet their basic obligations to the prisoners in their care. Imprisonment is expensive The cost of imprisonment worldwide is hard to calculate, but the best estimates are in the region of US$ 62.5 billion per year using 1997 statis-
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