Sentencing Matters

Name: Sentencing Matters
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ISBN: 9780195122930

ISBN-10: 0195122933

ISBN-13: 9780195122930

Edition: 1997

Authors: Michael Tonry

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Michael Tonry, an internationally recognized authority on criminology, offers in these pages a comprehensive overview of current research, policy developments, and practical experiences concerning sentencing and sanctions. He examines the effects of increased penalties and considers whether they have made America a safer place. Tonry contends that in order for sentencing to be fair and effective, comprehensive and defensible policies must be in place and mechanisms must exist to implement those policies. He also looks at mandatory penalties, community sanctions, and sentencing changes in other countries, and proposes sentencing policies for the twenty-first century. Sentencing has been…

Book details

List price: $135.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/8/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.09" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface



Sentencing Matters



Reforming Sentencing



The Federal Sentencing Guidelines



Intermediate Sanctions



Mandatory Penalties



Judges and Sentencing Policy



Sentencing Reform in Comparative Perspective



""""What is to Be Done?""""


References


Index