Edited by Bottoms, Anthony; Gelsthorpe, Loraine; Rex, Sue

1. Introduction - Community Penalties in England: The Contemporary Context 2. Community Penalties in Historical Context by Mike Nellis 3. Community Penalties in the Perspectives of Contemporary Social Change by Mark Liddle 4. Beyond Cognitive-behaviouralism: Reflections on the Effectiveness Literature by Sue Rex 5. Compliance and Community Penalties by Anthony Bottoms 6. Compliance: A Manager's Perspective by Andrew Underdown 7. Accountability in the Delivery of Community Penalties: To Whom, for What and Why? by Judith Rumgay 8. Accommodating Difference and Diversity in Probation Practice by Loraine Gelsthorpe 9. Technology and the Future of Community Penalties by George Mair 10. Community Penalties and Social Integration: 'Community' as Solution and as Problem by Peter Raynor 11. What Future for 'Public Safety' and 'Restorative Justice' in a System of Community Penalties by Michael E. Smith 12. Conclusions - Pathways to the Future

Community penalties are punishments that, in the courts' sentencing tariff, come between imprisonment and fines. They include electronic tagging, supervised unpaid work, and compulsory participation by offenders in treatment programmes. This book brings together many leading authors in this field in order to provide an authoratitive review of this vital field of public policy.