This book sets out to explore the role of community penalties in sentencing, arguing that the absence of a strong intellectual framework or underpinning has hampered their development in policy and practice.

Contents Preface 1 Introduction: Researching Communicative Penal Theory 2 Communicative Theory --Origins, Evolution and Application to Community Penalties 3 Seeking Stakeholders' Views of Punishment 4 Prioritising Penal Aims 5 Penal Messages 6 Responding to Punishment 7 Towards a Framework for Community Penalties 8 Conclusions Bibliography Index