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Sentencing and Society : International Perspectives.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence :
Taylor and Francis,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.