ENFORCEMENT OF PUNISHMENT, MEASURES AND SANCTIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM – ENGLAND AND WALES

Abstract

As early as the 1970s, alternative measures to imprisonment began to be considered at EU level. This article analyzes the types of sentences and their enforcement in the United Kingdom – England and Wales, with emphasis on the particularities of the enforcement of the prison sentence and on alternatives to the prison sentence, as provided for in the relevant legislation of these states.

Keywords

• alternative measures to imprisonment
• types of sentences
• enforcement in the united kingdom
• enforcement of the prison sentence
• alternatives to the prison sentence