Proportionate Sentencing Exploring the Principles

Name: Proportionate Sentencing Exploring the Principles
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ISBN: 9780199272600

ISBN-10: 0199272603

ISBN-13: 9780199272600

Edition: 2005

Authors: Andrew von Hirsch, Andrew Ashworth

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The principle that a sentence should be proportionate to the seriousness of the offence remains at the centre of penal practice and scholarly debate. This volume explores highly topical aspects of proportionality theory that require examination and further analysis. von Hirsch and Ashworth explore the relevance of the principle of proportionality to the sentencing of young offenders, the possible reasons for departing from the principle when sentencing dangerous offenders, and the application of the principle to socially deprived offenders. They examine the claim that the principle tends to be associated with greater severity in sentencing, and explore the relevance of penance and of…

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List price: $135.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/4/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English




Introduction: The Scope of this Book



The Justification for Punishment's Existence: Censure and Prevention



Proportionate Sentences for Juvenile Offenders



Extending Sentences for Dangerous Offenders? The Bottoms-Brownsword Model



Proportionate Punishment and Social Deprivation



Proportionality and Punitiveness?



Proportionality and the 'Penance' Perspective



Restorative Justice: A 'Making Amends' Model?, with Clifford Shearing



Criteria for Proportionality: A Review



Equity Factors in Sentencing



Limiting Retributivism and 'Modified' Desert


Gauging Crime Seriousness: A 'Living-Standard' Conception of Criminal Harm