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1 online resource (631 pages) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- List of Delegates -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- INTRODUCTION -- So What does 'and Society' Mean? -- PART I: THE INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT TOWARDS TRANSPARENCY AND 'TRUTH IN SENTENCING' -- 1 Getting Tough on Crime: the History and Political Context of Sentencing Reform Developments Leading to the Passage of the 1994 Crime Act -- 2 A Sentencing Matrix for Western Australia: Accountability and Transparency or Smoke and Mirrors? -- 3 Mandatory Sentences: a Conundrum for the new South Africa? -- 4 Are Guided Sentencing and Sentence Bargaining Incompatible? Perspectives of Reform in the Italian Legal System -- 5 Legislation and Practice of Sentencing in China -- 6 Sentencing Reform in Canada: Who Cares About Corrections? -- PART II: THE TRUTH ABOUT PUBLIC AND VICTIM PUNITIVENESS: WHAT DO WE KNOW AND WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW? -- 7 Public Knowledge and Public Opinion of Sentencing -- 8 Crisis and Contradictions in a State Sentencing Structure -- 9 Harsher is not Necessarily Better: Victim Satisfaction with Sentences Imposed under a 'Truth in Sentencing' Law -- PART III: MEASURING PUNISHMENT-CONCEPTUAL AND PRACTICAL PROBLEMS AND RESOLUTIONS -- 10 European Sentencing Traditions: Accepting Divergence or Aiming for Convergence? -- 11 What's It Worth? A Cross-Jurisdictional Comparison of Sentence Severity -- 12 Sentencing Burglars in England and Finland: A Pilot Study -- 13 A New Look at Sentence Severity -- 14 Desert and the Punitiveness of Imprisonment -- 15 The Science of Sentencing: Measurement Theory and von Hirsch's New Scales of Justice -- 16 Scaling Punishments: A Reply to Julia Davis -- 17 Scaling Punishments: A Response to von Hirsch -- PART IV: REASON-GIVING AND APPROACHES TO EXPLAINING SENTENCING |
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18 Sentencing Policy and Guilty Plea Discounts -- 19 Accountability for the Sentencing Decision Process -- Towards a New Understanding -- 20 Assisting Sentencing, Promoting Justice? -- 21 Dangerousness and Risk -- from Belgian Positivism to New Penology -- 22 Sentencing as Performance: Restoring Drama to the Courtroom -- PART V: DOING JUSTICE: POWER, EQUALITY AND EQUITY -- 23 Sentencing Policy and Racial Justice -- 24 Sentencing Sexual Offenders in the UK and Australia -- 25 Sentencing the Corporate Offender: Legal and Social Issues -- 26 Sentencing, Inequality and Justice -- 27 Punishment, Poverty and Responsibility: the Case for a Hardship Defence -- CONCLUSION -- 28 Reflections -- Subject Index -- Author Index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Punishment -- Cross-cultural studies
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Sentences (Criminal procedure)
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Punishment
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Sentences (Criminal procedure)
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hutton, Neil
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| ISBN |
9781351901093 |
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1351901095 |
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9781351901109 |
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1351901109 |
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