Sentencing Matters

Name: Sentencing Matters
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ISBN: 9780195094985

ISBN-10: 0195094980

ISBN-13: 9780195094985

Edition: 1996

Authors: Michael Tonry

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Sentencing policies and reform have become critical issues across the nation as the public has become increasingly concerned about crime, prompting changes such as the three strikes and you re out legislation. Every state since 1980 has enacted laws mandating minimum prison sentences based on the premises that harsher penalties will reduce crime rates and that judges cannot otherwise be trusted to impose them. Modern laws often tell judges what sentence to impose rather than set boundaries within which sentencing choices are to be made. Yet the effectiveness of these reforms has not been shown. As the national incarceration rate surges, there needs to be new discussion of the nature,…

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List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/18/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 232
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Preface
Sentencing Matters	p. 3
Reforming Sentencing	p. 25
The Federal Sentencing Guidelines	p. 72
Intermediate Sanctions	p. 100
Mandatory Penalties	p. 134
Judges and Sentencing Policy	p. 165
Sentencing Reform in Comparative Perspective	p. 174
""""What is to Be Done?""""	p. 190
References	p. 197
Index	p. 217
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