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Abstract Between 1948 and 1991 Parliament passed eight substantive Criminal Justice Acts for England and Wales, one Criminal Law Act which was close enough in content to the specifically criminal justice legislation to be similarly classified, four Scottish Criminal Justice Acts, and several acts dealing with criminal justice administration, international co-operation, and minor matters requiring legislation. Details are shown in Tables 1 and 2. The result of this legislative output has been the creation of a statutory framework for the administration of criminal justice and the sentencing and treatment of offenders. In the main the structure is permissive; with some exceptions, setting limits on what can be done rather than laying down by law what must be done. Successive acts have altered the shape of the structure; either by adding bits on (parole, community service orders, compensation orders, contract prisons), or, less often, by taking bits off (corporal punishment, detention centres, partly suspended sentences, the remand of juveniles to prison).
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