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Home > Arhiva > 2014 > Numar: 4 > Book review: Understanding Penal Practice - Ioan Durnescu and Fergus McNeill (Eds.), New York: Routledge, 2014, 344 p

 Book review: Understanding Penal Practice - Ioan Durnescu and Fergus McNeill (Eds.), New York: Routledge, 2014, 344 p

    by:
  • Daniela Gaba (University of Bucharest, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, 9 Schitu Măgureanu Street, District 5, Bucharest, Romania, phone: +40735659399, E-mail: daniela.gaba@yahoo.com)

Edited by Ioan Durnescu, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work at the University of Bucharest, and Fergus McNeill, Professor of Criminology and Social Work at the University of Glasgow, Understanding penal practice was published in 2014 at Routledge, New York. Although, as the editors themselves highlight in the Introduction, the book is unusual in several ways, its hallmark is the focus on penal practice in the community rather than in prisons, only one chapter of twenty two – Liebling and Crewe’s piece – presenting research done in prison settings. This refocus from in-prison to community-based supervisory sanctions reverses a preoccupation now trending in the scientific literature and, for that matter, is more than welcomed in today’s penology. The editors have sought to highlight the shift from the “what works” movement to a “who works” rhetoric. They advance the vision of a changing penal practice in which how things are done and by who become paramount. The book brings together the work of over forty researchers and practitioners in different parts of the world (United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, Ireland, Austria, Germany, France, Romania, Singapore, Australia, USA, Canada, Japan, and New Zealand).