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