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The Politics of Sentencing Reform

The Politics of Sentencing Reform

Clarkson, C. M.
Morgan
Morgan, Rod

Hardcover

CriminologyGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0198258720
ISBN13: 9780198258728
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: Jun 29 1995
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.42
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
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 offenses, 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.

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