The Howard League for Penal Reform's Community Programmes Handbook aims to show how non-custodial punishments address the causes of offending in a practical way. The guide highlights a range of community sentences including early interventions with young people and sentences and programmes for young people dealing with factors that contribute to offending, such as alcohol-related crimes. Frances Crook, director of the Howard League, said the handbook shows the work being done across England and Wales in community sentencing. "Spending all day lounging on a...