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Deserved criminal sentences : an overview /
"This book provides an accessible and systematic restatement of the desert model for criminal sentencing by one of its leading academic exponents. The desert model emphasises the degree of seriousness of the offender's crime in deciding the severity of his punishment, and has become increa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Portland, Oregon :
Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the emergence of the proportionate sentence
- Sentence proportionality sketched briefly
- Why should the criminal sanction exist?
- Why punish proportionately?
- Ordinal and cardinal proportionality
- Seriousness, severity and the living-standard
- The role of previous convictions
- Proportionate non-custodial sanctions
- A "modified" desert model?
- The politics of the desert model
- Proportionate sentences for juveniles
- Appendix: the desert model's evolution : a brief chronology.