Reparation cannot be nor ever has been an alternative to punishment, argues the author in a 'clear-eyed' analysis which puts the concept firmly in secondary position to the needs of the offender and the system.
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References
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See 'Restitution; a new paradigm of Criminal Justice, Randy E. Barnett in Perspectives on Crime Victims, Burt Galaway and Joe Hudson (Eds.) Masby, 1981.
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Ziegenhagen, E.A., 'Victims, Crime and Social Control', Praeger1977.
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If you read much of the recent material you will probably conclude that the 'The Greed of the Barons' assertions all onginate from William Tallack. See Reparation to the injured and the rights of the victims of crime to compensation (Paper to the Quinquennial International Prison Congress, Brussells) London , Weheimer, Lea.
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See for instance articles by Douglas Hay and Robert Storch in Crime and Society, M. Fitzgerald, G. McLennan, J. Parson (Eds.), RKP (with O.U.) 1981.
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See for instance Law and Economic Organisation, Katherine S. Newman, Cambridge, 1983.
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See Responses to Victimization, D. Meirs, Abingdon, 1978.