Download or read book Alternatives to Imprisonment in England and Wales, Germany and Turkey written by Öznur Sevdiren and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on one of the most problematic areas of Turkish penal justice: the overreliance on custodial measures and a corresponding growth in the prison population, and compares Turkey with two major European countries in this respect: England and Wales and Germany. The underlying question throughout the study is the extent to which prison alternatives can be seen as genuine alternatives to immediate custodial sentences.