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| DOI | 10.1177/000486588802100212 |
| Published date | 01 June 1988 |
| Date | 01 June 1988 |
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BOOK
REVIEWS
(1988) 21 ANZJ Crim
piaces available.
The
one
shining example
here
is the case of Massachusetts,
but
the
more
typical result has
been
networking on a grand scale.
For
these and many
other
reasons,
Hudson
sees the justice model as an even
greater
disaster
than
the
model(s) that it replaced. So what does she suggest? She
does have suggestions to make,
but
the
point must be made
that
the validity or value
of a critique does
not
rely on the validity or value of
the
alternatives that are
proposed. To expose a fault is usefuI, even if
one
does not have
the
means or idea
to correct it.
Hudson proposes two alternative strategies, neither of which is fully developed.
First, she calls for a renaissance of rehabilitation which learns from
the
mistakes of
the
past. She argues
that
to aim to do good by helping is at least preferable
than
to
airn to harm by punishing. Second, she calls for a programme of crime prevention,
community regeneration, victim reparation and offender-victim mediation together
with a movement towards the dismantling of formal criminal justice sytems. An
approach based on civillaw principles of equal participation is seen as
more
healthy
and
curative
than
the
criminallaw assumption
that
all offences are against the state
rather
than against individuals.
This
book
will infuriate some readers as much as it will delight some others. It
deserves to be
debated
by criminology students, by judges, by politicians and, most
of all, by Iaw reformers. This is a contribution to contemporary criminology
that
should
not
be overlooked.
Canberra
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