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"Exactly how is it we think the ends of justice are accomplished by means of sentencing a convict to a term in prison? How do we relate a quantitative measure of time--months and years--to the objectives of deterring crime, punishing wrongdoers, and accomplishing a quality of justice for those...

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Autor principal: Meyer, Linda, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst, Massachusetts : Amherst College Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Prison sentences.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Prison sentences > United States.
Sentences (Criminal procedure) > United States.
United States.
Open access publications.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The phenomenological fallacy: out of sight, out of time
  • The cosmological fallacy: time is a thing with quantity
  • Doing x amount of time for x amount of crime
  • Is meaninglessness itself a kind of justified punishment?
  • Bad time and good time
  • Alternative: "serving" a sentence: sentencing as service
  • Objections and responses
  • Appendix: Supreme Court decisions of note: In re: Medley ; Ruiz v. Texas (dissent of Justice Breyer) ; Ewing v. California ; Brown v. Plata ; Pepper v. United States ; Miller v. Alabama.

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