Title Determinate sentencing : the promise and the reality of retributive justice / Pamala L. Griset

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1991

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Description 1 online resource (237 pages) Series SUNY series in critical issues in criminal justice SUNY series in critical issues in criminal justice. Contents Introduction -- Purpose and power: a historical link -- The birth of the determinate ideal -- The national movement for determinate sentencing -- The attack on the rehabilitative regime in New York -- New York embraces the determinate ideal -- Sentencing guidelines New York style -- The fall of the determinate ideal -- Conclusion: the rhetoric and the reality -- Public hearings on determinate sentencing -- Interviews -- Chapter 711 of the Laws of 1983 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-201) and index Notes Print version record Subject Prison sentences -- Case studies Prison sentences -- New York (State) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology. Prison sentences Freiheitsstrafe Reform New York (State) New York Staat USA Genre/Form Case studies Case studies. Études de cas. Form Electronic book LC no. 90035293 ISBN 0585059101 9780585059105 1438405049 9781438405049

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