Nathan Monk

Policy-makers are currently seeking to transform prison regimes so that they prepare prisoners for the labour market. However, this article shows that the alleged poor work ethic of prisoners has traditionally been viewed as a key element in their classification as the ‘undeserving poor’ and that economic transformation has relegated many to the margins of the labour force. This raises important questions about the role of prison in the post-industrial labour market. The author argues that prison simultaneously houses the growing surplus population resulting from capital’s unceasing drive for profit and becomes a lucrative new market which has transformed some prisoners into an economic resource.

Research has demonstrated higher than average levels of mental health problems among young offenders. These mental health needs are often unmet. The mental health needs of ethnic minority groups and young people with combined mental health problems and substance misuse need to be further elucidated.

All young people open to a Youth Offending Service (YOS) were invited to opt-out or participate. Young people and their key workers were asked to fill out versions of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, Conners short form and a qualitative questionnaire establishing ethnicity and investigating perceived mental health needs and substance abuse.

Rates of mental health needs were higher than in the general population of this city, as was substance misuse. The ethnic minority population was  overrepresented, although the white British sample had higher levels of mental health needs.

Intervention and treatment was either limited or fragmented in meeting the needs of these vulnerable young people. The findings have been shared with the YOS, this will hopefully lead to an increase in referrals to child and adolescent mental health services.

Little is known about how Cambodia’s correctional system functions and the problems it encounters. This paper draws from the first author’s doctoral research in Cambodia, in which he interviewed 91 detained human traffickers, 200 prisoners convicted of other crimes, and 55 prison officers in eight prisons. In addition, Cambodian attitudes to crime and punishment are discussed in the light of three sweeps of the United Nations International Crime Victim Survey (UNICVS). This paper provides insights into the correctional system, focusing on three aspects: operation, irregularities and life in prisons. Cambodian prisons are more than just places of punishment and rehabilitation. Each one is a society within the larger society, characterised by inequality, inequity, hierarchy and other aspects of life observed in Cambodian society, such as corruption and abuses of power. They are primarily places for the poor where most prisoners said they were treated as if they were ‘less than human’.

Restorative justice is developing robustly within the criminal justice system particularly in the field of juvenile justice. With the efforts devoted to policy  development and intervention practices, activities at government and community levels suggest that restorative justice is emerging as an increasingly important element in mainstream criminal justice. Though restorative justice initiatives are one of the new initiatives for dealing with offending in many western countries, there has been relatively little experience of actual use of restorative practices in controlling juvenile offending and criminal justice intervention in China. In this paper, we first describe key themes of restorative justice and practices. We then highlight how restorative justice and practices been operated in the present j

In September of 2004, the government of South Korea enacted the ‘Act on the Punishment of Intermediating in the Sex Trade’. Included in the law are strict penalties, such as large fines and long prison sentences for both the owners of brothels and their patrons. Despite this law, many observers in Korea have suggested that the sex trade within Korea has been displaced from red light districts to more clandestine locations, including barbershops, karaoke parlours, massage parlours, and even cyberspace. They argue that the act does little more than suppress the sex trade in one place, which then causes it to resurface somewhere else. Another term for this phenomenon is crime displacement. Several scholars have contributed to the development of a displacement typology: spatial, temporal, tactical, target, and offence. Whatever the specific type, displacement is an adaptive response. Displacement is a central concern of researchers, policymakers, and others concerned with crime prevention and proactive policing. An analysis of the Korean case will provide important insights into the dynamics of crime displacement. The paper introduces the theoretical background of crime displacement and presents theories and general concepts of crime displacement. A discussion then follows regarding the analysis of official data on prostitution in the years 2000 to 2009 and a news content analysis of crime displacement based on 174 newspaper articles as well as a secondary data analysis derived from a survey of 1,078 Korean sex workers in seven cities throughout South Korea. Finally, the paper discusses the implications of theory and policy for improving our understanding of current antiprostitution policies and efforts to control prostitution.

This article will examine the prevalence of crimes committed by juvenile offenders in Singapore, trace the measures taken to address such offenders (such as probation, community service, institutionalisation and so on), look at the success of such measures and, finally comment on the recent spate of gang activities leading to severe injuries and the measures currently being considered.

Although community justice, as a new trend, does not exist in Saudi Arabia in a strict western sense, local community does get involved in crime prevention and judicial process, such as community policing, community prosecution, and restorative justice sanctioning. These community involvements are based on Islamic religion, collective culture (such as tribalism) and social system (such as Sheikh and Umda system). Similar to community justice in western society, community involvement in crime prevention and judicial process in Saudi Arabia helps Saudi government to maintain social order and create a coherent and harmonious society.