The Politics of Sentencing Reform Hardback
Edited by Chris (Professor of Criminal Law, Professor of Criminal Law, University of Leicester) Clarkson, Rod (Dean of Faculty of Law and Professor of Criminal Justice, Dean of Faculty of Law and Pr Morgan
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Sentencing practice and reform has in recent years assumed a high political profile in many jurisdictions.
Changing public attitudes about the relative seriousness of different offences, evidence of inconsistent governmental concerns about the escalating costs of criminal justice, and support for a return to more traditional conceptions of justice in the wake of loss of faith in individualistic rehabilitative responses to offending, have all given sharper focus to the reformist agenda. This text brings together case-studies of legislative sentencing reform initiatives in the USA and Canada, Australia, Sweden, and England and Wales alongside three essays by leading international authorities on the impetus for and dynamics of change.
The picture that emerges is complex. Changing sentencing policy is a highly political process in which, as these case studies show, options are judged to be acceptable as much for their presentational as their substantive characteristics. Contributors: Rod Morgan, Chris Clarkson, Tony Bottoms, Arie Freiberg, Nils Jareborg, D.
A. Thomas, Andrew von Hirsch, Richard S. Frase, Anthony N. Doob, Andrew Ashworth, Michael Tonry
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:296 pages, line figures, tables
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:18/05/1995
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- ISBN:9780198258728
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:296 pages, line figures, tables
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:18/05/1995
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198258728