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Making Good
~ Martin Wright
Edition
2
Foreword by
Vivien Stern
Pages
320
Paperback
Published
11/03/2008
ISBN-10:
1904380417
ISBN-13:
9781904380412
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Making Good
Prisons, Punishment and Beyond
Second edition with additional material by the author, and a new foreword by one of the UK's leading penal reformers.
One of the classic and original works that paved the way for the development of the Restorative Justice movement. Martin Wright argues that the real need is for fundamental rethinking of crime and punishment, rather than short-term tinkering with a prison system that is in an intolerable state of crisis.
Martin Wright starts by demonstrating that neither the conservative idea of deterrence through punishment nor the liberal ideal of rehabilitation has worked in practice. In their place he proposes the basis for a radical but carefully worked out practical philosophy which would place the emphasis on the offender making amends to the victim and society for the damage caused.
‘All those concerned with the monstrosity that is our current prison system, the unchecked growth of the criminal justice system as the response to social problems and the poverty of ideas in dealing with the harm caused by crime will find a re-read of this classic text very worthwhile’: Baroness Vivien Stern (from the Foreword)
Contents include:
1. Prisons, Punishment and the Public
2. Prisons: What They Are Like
3. Prisons: Endemic Abuses
4. Keeping More People out of Prison
5. Constructive Penalties
6. The Remaining Prisoners
7. Bringing Change About
8. The Sentence of the Court: What Can It Achieve?
9. Keeping Crime in Check
10. Making Amends: A Two-Way Process
Author
Martin Wright is a former Director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, Policy Officer of Victim Support, and Librarian of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology. He is a Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, Leicester, and the author of Restoring Respect for Justice and Justice for Victims and Offenders. He is joint editor of Mediation and Criminal Justice: Victims, Offenders and Community. A founder member of the Restorative Justice Consortium, he is currently a member of its board, and acts as a voluntary mediator in the Lambeth Mediation Service, London. As an active member of the European Forum for Restorative Justice he has spoken at many international conferences, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Conflict Resolution, Bulgaria.
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