Offers a comprehensive account of life sentencing, from pre-sentence to release on licence, A Companion Guide to Life Sentences:
- Covers mandatory life for murder, HMP sentences for juvenile murderers
- Explains the principles governing discretionary life sentences
- Looks at lifer “career” planning, the “life system” and the psychological experience of indeterminate loss of liberty
- Goes through the process of review and the role of the Parole Board, life licence demands and recall
- Includes illustrative case examples, revealing the experiences of lifers and those who work with them