Book Review: Punishment in the Community: Managing Offenders, Making Choices

• Author: Michael G. Petrunik
• DOI: 10.1177/1057567707299317
• Published date: 01 March 2007
• Date: 01 March 2007
• Subject Matter: Articles

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International Criminal Justice Review
Scared Straight and Drug Abuse Resistance Education programs do not work. Fining drug users does
not work. Probation and prison without a treatment program do not work.
What does work? Overall, a program of integrated services in the criminal justice system as a
response to drugs and crime can work. Integrated drug treatment programs based on the American
model of drug courts with an enforced regime of drug testing can work. These programs require the
integration of courts, private treatment providers, and probation services with legislative funding in
the context of realistic assessment and evaluation. These types of programs have the potential to be
the most successful means of controlling local and national drug problems.
Michael Kaune
St. Francis College, New York, NY
Worrall, A., & Hoy, C. (2005). Punishment in the Community: Managing Offenders, Making
Choices (2nd ed.). Cullompton, Devon, UK: Willan.
DOI: 10.1177/1057567707299317
This extensively revised second edition might very easily have been titled Everything You Wanted to
Know (And More) About Community Penalty in England and Wales. So exhaustive is the cataloging of
legislation, policy initiatives, working papers, and bureaucratic reforms that the reader (especially some-
one unfamiliar with the U.K. scene as is this Canadian reviewer) can easily get lost in the sometimes
arcane discussion of U.K. criminal justice bureaucracy. A list of acronyms for various initiatives pro-
vided by the authors is helpful in following the discussion, but nonetheless the reader uninitiated to the
world of U.K. justice policy may at times be put off.
The authors’ insider perspective is a reflection of their many years in the trenches of British
criminal justice policy and practice. Worrall, a former probation officer, heads the School of
Criminology, Education, Sociology, and Social Work at Keele University in Staffordshire. Hoy, a
magistrate, is a member of one of the regional area boards of...