Reform and Punishment

In this book a group of leading authorities in the field address the key issues surrounding the future of sentencing in Britain, in the light particularly of the highly influential Halliday Report. These proposals for reform amount to the single most ambitious and comprehensive set of proposals for reconstituting the sentencing system of a common-law country, and include proposals to replace existing sentencing statutes, the establishment of a sentencing commission and sentencing guidelines, and the creation of a sentence review function in the judiciaryAs well as addressing the major issues of the Halliday Report the chapters in this book go beyond this to explore the broader set of policy problems and implications which are raised, drawing upon experiences of reform in other jurisdictions and contexts, particularly that of the USA. This book will be essential reading for anybody with an interest in the future of sentencing or the future direction of the criminal justice system as a whole.

David Faulkner, Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Criminological Research, University of Oxford, was the principal architect of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 and for many years a senior civil servant in the Home Office David A. Green has an MPhil from the Institute of Criminology in Cambridge and is now studying for a PhD there The Honourable Judge Peter Jones is a circuit court judge in Sheffield and a member of the Sentencing Advisory Commission for England and Wales. Thomas P. LeBel is Lecturer in the School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York at Albany Alison Liebling is University Lecturer in Criminology, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, and Director of the Institute's Prison Research Centre Shadd Maruna is Lecturer in Criminology, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge Rod Morgan, Chief Inspector of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Probation, was for many years Professor of Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Bristol Sue Rex is Senior Research Associate in the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, an ESRC Fellow and Director of the Institute's Cropwood Programme Julian V. Roberts is Professor of Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa Michael Tonry is Professor of Law and Public Policy and Director of the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, and Sonosky Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of Minnesota Andrew von Hirsch is Honorary Professor of Penal Law and Penal Theory, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, and Director of the Institute's Centre on Penal Theory and Penal Ethics