A Companion Guide to

ENFORCEMENT

3rd Edition

This text has become the standard reference book on enforcement for practitioners in the probation service and youth offending teams, and has also proved a valuable aid to defence advocates, court clerks, magistrates and other professionals who need an accessible but comprehensive sourcebook on the subject.

This guide uniquely covers the generic provisions governing enforcement via prosecution, identifies the basis for legal proceedings across the range of community orders, explains the framework of enforcement by the Parole Board and the Prison Service, and also details the enforcement of financial penalties. Also outlined: sex offenders' notification to the police; breach of hostel bail conditions; parenting orders.

"Anyone charged with enforcement will want this book; after a short while they will marvel that they ever managed without it"

Justice of the Peace

Paperback  A5  1999  246 pages

ISBN 0 9045 5338 8

£15.00

A Companion Guide to

LIFE SENTENCES

2nd Edition

Nigel Stone

This book has been welcomed by practitioners (and lifers themselves) as an accessible guide to the life labyrinth. The first and only practitioner's text dedicated to this topic, the guide offers a comprehensive account of life sentencing from pre-sentence to release on licence, covering mandatory life for murder, HMP sentences for juvenile murderers, the principles governing discretionary life sentences, lifer 'career' planning, the 'life system', the psychological experience of indeterminate loss of liberty, the process of review and the role of the Parole Board, life licence demands and recall.

This A-Z account is supplemented by illustrative case examples, brinign to life the experience for lifers and those who work with them. The text has been brought fully up-to-date in this second edition.

"This invaluable aid provides the thorough foundation of law and procedure relating to life sentences which is essential for effective practice and professional credibility"

Probation Journal

Paperback  A5  Forthcoming 2006  Approx. 200 pages

ISBN 0 7219 1622 8

£TBA

A Companion Guide to

SENTENCING

Part One: Specific Offences

Nigel Stone

This text reflects the need of criminal justice practitioners who advise sentencers and offenders to have ready access to the law of sentencing and, in particular, to the approach of the Court of Appeal in weighing an offender's culpability in the light of aggravating and mitigating features of the crime in question.

The first of two books on sentencing law, principles and practice, Specific Offences details all the common offences likely to be encountered by pre-sentence report writers, from arson to unlawful sexual intercourse, identifying the statutory powers of punishment, the guideline judgments, illustrations of recent judicial approaches to offence analysis, relevant Magistrates' Association guidance, etc. The reader is guided in assessing the seriousness in any particular case, together with the factors contributing to the type and length of sentence.

A special chapter explains the kind of factors that can count as personal mitigation.

Paperback   A5   2000   146 pages

ISBN 0 9045 5339 6

£13.50

A Companion Guide to

SENTENCING

Part Two: General Issues and Provisions

Nigel Stone

Intended to provide a richer context for the issues posed in Part One, this book provides a comprehensive but accessible account of the generic provisions governing sentencing, both as a question of principle and as a procedural challenge. Particular attention is paid to recent Court of Appeal interpretations and guidance. It goes on to detail the legislation and case law relating to each specific kind of sentence, order and ancillary measure, from automatic life imprisonment for a second serious offence to banning orders for football offenders. Intermediate measures such as deferment of sentence and committal for sentence are fully explored, as are the consequences of breach of conditional discharge or suspended sentence.

Although written with probation and youth justice workers primarily in mind, it is likely to be valuable to other criminal justice practitioners seeking a convenient reference book.

Paperback   A5   October 2001  288 pages

ISBN 0 7219 1620 1

£15.00

A Companion Guide to

MENTALLY DISORDERED OFFENDERS

2nd Edition

Nigel Stone

The first edition of this book was welcomed by probation and mental health personnel as an accessible guide to this complex area of law, covering the spectrum of special provision from the mentally disordered suspect at the police station through to the conditional discharge from hospital of restricted patients, including diversion from the criminal justice system, insanity and allied defences, community orders combining treatment and supervision, mentally disordered prisoners, guardianship orders, etc.

Now completely revised and updated, the text considers proposals to reform the Mental Health Act and to introduce measures permitting the indefinite detention of persons with personality disorders considered to pose unacceptable risks to public safety. The book includes illustrative case examples of patient-offenders at point of sentence and their subsequent management from a legal perspective.

Paperback   A5   2003   288 pages

ISBN 0 7219 1621 X

£16.50