Book Review: Sexuality Repositioned: Diversity and the Law
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highlighting a number of key issues and tensions. For instance, the rise in the prison population is addressed from a number of angles and concern is expressed, from a range of perspectives, about the intended (and possibly unintended) consequences of the implementation of the Criminal Justice Act 2003. Moreover, many of the chapters explore the implications of the changing configurations of sentencing since the Criminal Justice Act 1991, the increasing range of agencies becoming involved in working with offenders, and the different types of interventions that are now becoming features of the criminal justice system in England and Wales. The comparisons with Scotland and Northern Ireland in most chapters (and, on occasions, with international examples and research findings) extend these insights still further. In sum, against a background of change this volume offers a significant contribution towards an informed debate in this area of criminal justice, both in the breadth and depth of coverage and in the quality of the scrutiny of the individual authors. Reference Coulsfield, Lord (2004) Crime, Courts and Confidence: Report on an Inde- pendent Inquiry into Alternatives to Prison. London: Stationery Office. Belinda Brooks-Gordon, Loraine Gelsthorpe, Martin Johnson and Andrew Bainham (eds) Sexuality Repositioned: