Screen LibraryAmerican sentencing : what happens and why? /
Provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of efforts in the state and the federal systems to make sentencing fairer, reduce overuse of imprisonment, and help offenders live law-abiding lives. It addresses a variety of topics and themes related to sentencing and reform, including racial dispa...
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The University of Chicago Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Crime and justice,
volume 48 |
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| Summary: |
Provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of efforts in the state and the federal systems to make sentencing fairer, reduce overuse of imprisonment, and help offenders live law-abiding lives. It addresses a variety of topics and themes related to sentencing and reform, including racial disparities, violence prediction, plea negotiation, case processing, federal and state guidelines, California's historic "realignment," and more. This volume covers what students, scholars, practitioners, and policy makers need to know about how sentencing really works, what a half century's "reforms" have and have not accomplished, how sentencing processes can be made fairer, and how sentencing outcomes can be made more just. Its writers are among America's leading scholarly specialists--often the leading specialist--in their fields. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 535 pages : illustrations, forms ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226645070 022664507X 9780226644912 022664491X |
| Index Number: | KF9225 |
| CLC: |
D971.252 D971.24 |
| Call Number: | D971.24/A512 |
| Contents: |
Preface / Fifty years of American sentencing reform : nine lessons / The Wild West of sentencing reform : lessons from California / Forty years of American sentencing guidelines : what have we learned? / Federal sentencing after Booker / The evolution of sentencing guidelines in Minnesota and England and Wales / Model Penal Code : Sentencing : workable limits on mass punishment / Trials and tribulations : the trial tax and the process of punishment / Have racial and ethnic disparities in sentencing declined? / Predictions of dangerousness in sentencing : déjà vu all over again / Criminal courts as inhabited institutions : making sense of difference and similarity in sentencing / |