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Sentencing: A Social Process: Re-Thinking Research and Policy

Sentencing: A Social Process: Re-Thinking Research and Policy

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies

CriminologyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 3030010597
ISBN13: 9783030010591
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: Jan 30 2020
Pages: 177
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book asks how we should make sense of sentencing when, despite huge efforts world-wide to analyse, critique and reform it, it remains an enigma.Sentencing: A Social Process reveals how both research and policy-thinking about sentencing are confined by a paradigm that presumes autonomous individualism, projecting an artificial image of sentencing practices and policy potential. By conceiving of sentencing instead as a social process, the book advances new policy and research agendas. Sentencing: A Social Process proposes innovative solutions to classic conundrums, including: rules versus discretion; aggravating versus mitigating factors; individualisation versus consistency; punishment versus rehabilitation; efficient technologies versus the quality of justice; and ways of reducing imprisonment.

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