Sentencing and the Legitimacy of Trial Justice

This book discusses the under-researched relationship between sentencing and the legitimacy of punishment. The book argues that there is an increasing gap between what is perceived as legitimate punishment and the sentencing decisions of the criminal courts. Drawing on a wide variety of empirical research evidence, it explores how sentencing could be developed within a more socially-inclusive framework for the delivery of trial justice. In the international context, such developments are directly relevant to the future role of the ICC, especially its capacity for delivering more coherent and inclusive trial outcomes that contribute to social reconstruction. Similarly, in the national context, these issues have a vital role to play in helping to re-position trial justice as a credible cornerstone of criminal justice governance where social diversity persists. In so doing the book should help policy-makers in appreciating the likely implications for criminal trials of #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;mainstreaming#xE2;#xAC;" restorative forms justice. Sentencing and the Legitimacy of Trial Justicewill be of interest to graduate students, academics, practitioners and policy makers in the field of criminal justice and scholars interested in socio-legal and cross-disciplinary approaches to the analysis of criminal process and sentencing in particular, and also the development of theory and comparative methodology in this area.