TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Mandatory life sentences for serious sex offenders in England and Wales: tough, but intelligent too?
JO  - Journal of sexual aggression
A1  - Harrison, Karen
SP  - 296
EP  - 309
VL  - 20
IS  - 3
N2  - This article considers the preventive detention laws in England and Wales with special reference to the new mandatory life sentence that has recently replaced imprisonment for public protection (IPP). It considers what was wrong with IPPs and agrees that change was required, but questions whether the coalition government has introduced anything better. Looking at sentencing policy and practice in South Africa, England and Germany, it evaluates whether the new policy behind preventive detention in England and Wales is as David Cameron has stated tough, but intelligent too.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 1355-2600
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13552600.2013.820849
ID  - ref1
ER  -