000 00887nam a2200169 4500
001 14748
090 _a14748
100 _a20010326u y0pory50 ba
101 _aeng
200 _aImprisoned for debt
_ewho protects the vulnerable?
_fRona Epstein
330 _aThough enforcement procedures for non-payment of fines and local taxes are necessary, Rona Epstein of Coventry University's Division of Law argues that enforcement by imprisonment is not only inefficient, in that the sums owed are cancelled by committal, but operates without any of the safeguards which normally govern use of this remedy of last resort, so that we fail to protect vulnerable defaulters.
461 _vV.44,n.2
_dJune 1997
_pp.92-95
_tProbation Journal
_cLondon
606 _aMULTA
_96311
700 _aEPSTEIN
_bRona
_914727
852 _jP.105