Sentencing and Punishment

Susan Easton, Emeritus Professor of Law, Brunel University London,Christine Piper, Emeritus Professor, Brunel University London

Susan Easton is Emeritus Professor of Law at Brunel Law School, a barrister, and founding editor of the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law. She has previously lectured at both the University of Sussex and the University of Sheffield, as well as tutoring in UK prisons. She has a particular research interest in prisoners' rights and the experience of imprisonment.

Christine Piper is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Emeritus Professor of Law at Brunel Law School, and a member of the editorial board of Child and Family Law Quarterly. She has taught in secondary schools in both Nigeria and the UK and is interested in youth justice and sentencing and child and family law.

Part I: Sentencing Principles, Policies and Problems
1. Developing penal policy
2. Structuring sentencing
3. Determining 'just deserts'
4. Utility and deterrence
5. Risk and danger
6. Instead of punishment? Restorative justice, child welfare, and medical treatment
7. Impact on victims and offenders
Part II: Punishing Offenders
8. Justice in the modern prison
9. Experiencing imprisonment
10. Punishment and rehabilitation in the community
11. Court orders for young offenders
12. Concluding remarks