Handbook on sentencing policies and practices in the 21st century,
Автор: Corrin, Lucy (law Commission) Oliver, Michael (law Commission) Walsh, Jack (solicitor, Solicitor, Edmonds Marshall Mcmahon) Название: Blackstone`s guide to the sentencing code 2020 digital pack ISBN: 0192896970 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192896971 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 8622.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The essential Guide to the Sentencing Code providing expert commentary on the scope, extent, and effects of the Sentencing Act 2020 with practical checklists and tables, ensuring users can track the changes between the previous law and the new Code. Includes digital access on OUP LawReader.
Автор: O`Hear Michael Название: The Failed Promise of Sentencing Reform ISBN: 1440840873 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781440840876 Издательство: Bloomsbury Цена: 8613.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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After many decades of stability, the imprisonment rate in the United States quintupled between 1973 and 2003. Since then, nearly all states have adopted multiple reforms intended to reduce imprisonment, but the U.S. imprisonment rate has only decreased by a paltry two percent. Why are American sentencing reforms since 2000 been largely ineffective? Are tough mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders the primary reason our prisons are always full? This book offers a fascinating assessment of the wave of sentencing reforms adopted by dozens of states as well as changes at the federal level since 2000, identifying common themes among seemingly disparate changes in sentencing policy and highlighting recent reform efforts that have been more successful and may point the way forward for the nation as a whole.
In The Failed Promise of Sentencing Reform, author Michael O'Hear exposes the myths that American prison sentencing reforms enacted in the 21st century have failed to have the expected effect because U.S. prisons are filled to capacity with nonviolent drug offenders as a result of the "war on drugs," and because of new laws that took away the discretion of judges and corrections officials. O'Hear then makes a convincing case for the real reason sentencing reforms have come up short: because they exclude violent and sexual offenders, and because they rely on the discretion of officials who still have every incentive to be highly risk-averse. He also highlights how overlooking the well-being of offenders and their families in our consideration of sentencing reform has undermined efforts to effect real change.
Описание: Contextual Characteristics in Juvenile Sentencing assesses how a specific contextual factor-concentrated disadvantage-impacts juvenile court outcomes and considers the relevant implications for the current state of juvenile justice processing.
Автор: Graeme Brown Название: Criminal Sentencing as Practical Wisdom ISBN: 1509902619 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509902613 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 19008.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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How do judges sentence? In particular, how important is judicial discretion in sentencing? Sentencing guidelines are often said to promote consistency, but is consistency in sentencing achievable or even desirable? Whilst the passing of a sentence is arguably the most public stage of the criminal justice process, there have been few attempts to examine judicial perceptions of, and attitudes towards, the sentencing process.
Through interviews with Scottish judges and by presenting a comprehensive review and analysis of recent scholarship on sentencing - including a comparative study of UK, Irish and Commonwealth sentencing jurisprudence - this book explores these issues to present a systematic theory of sentencing. Through an integration of the concept of equity as particularised justice, the Aristotelian concept of phronesis (or 'practical wisdom'), the concept of value pluralism, and the focus of appellate courts throughout the Commonwealth on sentencing by way of 'instinctive synthesis', it is argued that judicial sentencing methodology is best viewed in terms of a phronetic synthesis of the relevant facts and circumstances of the particular case. The author concludes that sentencing is best conceptualised as a form of case-orientated, concrete and intuitive decision making; one that seeks individualisation through judicial recognition of the profoundly contextualised nature of the process.
Описание: As the death penalty clings stubbornly to life in many states and dies off in others, this first-of-its kind ethnography of capital trials offers a fresh analysis of the inner workings of American death penalty. Sarah Beth Kaufman draws on years of ethnographic and documentary research, including hundreds of hours of courtroom observation in seven states, interviews with prosecutors, and analyses of newspaper coverage of death penalty cases. Her research exposes the logic of a system that is not explained by morality or justice and does not make sense fiscally, emotionally, or as a crime-control strategy, but instead depends on a series of social logics that go beyond the previously acknowledged problems with race and class discrimination. Taking readers inside capital courtrooms across the country, American Roulette contends that the ideals of criminal punishment have been replaced by logics of performance and politics. The result is a network that assembles the power to decide between life and death, all while suggesting that jurors take ultimate responsibility.
This richly detailed, sociologically rigorous work promises to take debates around the death penalty beyond the familiar race-and-class frameworks and to offer new ways of understanding jury sentencing more broadly. Ultimately, it reveals not only the deep biases built into the capital system but its utter capriciousness.
Автор: Ryan Alexander Название: Introduction to Corrections: An Evidenced-Based Approach ISBN: 1642425923 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781642425925 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 13028.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: This text is for an introduction to corrections class. The premise of the book is to expose students to the importance of empirical data concerning corrections policies, program, and protocol. It reviews the historical roots of corrections up to current issues. The importance of evidence-based policy and planning are highlighted.
Автор: Jan W de Keijser, Jesper Ryberg, Julian V Roberts Название: Predictive Sentencing: Normative and Empirical Perspectives ISBN: 150994608X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509946082 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 6176.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Predictive Sentencing addresses the role of risk assessment in contemporary sentencing practices. Predictive sentencing has become so deeply ingrained in Western criminal justice decision-making that despite early ethical discussions about selective incapacitation, it currently attracts little critique. Nor has it been subjected to a thorough normative and empirical scrutiny. This is problematic since much current policy and practice concerning risk predictions is inconsistent with mainstream theories of punishment. Moreover, predictive sentencing exacerbates discrimination and disparity in sentencing. Although structured risk assessments may have replaced ‘gut feelings’, and have now been systematically implemented in Western justice systems, the fundamental issues and questions that surround the use of risk assessment instruments at sentencing remain unresolved. This volume critically evaluates these issues and will be of great interest to scholars of criminal justice and criminology.
