Sentencing and Society: International Perspectives

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ISBN: 9780754621836 | 0754621839
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Copyright: 4/7/2016

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Combining the latest work of leading sentencing and punishment scholars from ten different countries, this major new international volume answers key questions in the study of sentencing and society.

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

xii

List of Delegates

xxii

Preface and Acknowledgements

xxvi

Foreword

xxvii

Introduction So What does `and Society' Mean?

(40)

Cyrus Tata

PART I: THE INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT TOWARDS TRANSPARENCY AND `TRUTH IN SENTENCING'

Getting Tough on Crime: the History and Political Context of Sentencing Reform Developments Leading to the Passage of the 1994 Crime Act

(22)

Judith Greene

A Sentencing Matrix for Western Australia: Accountability and Transparency or Smoke and Mirrors?

(25)

Neil Morgan

Mandatory Sentences: a Conundrum for the new South Africa?

(20)

Dirk van Zyl Smit

Are Guided Sentencing and Sentence Bargaining Incompatible? Perspectives of Reform in the Italian Legal System

110

(23)

Grazia Mannozzi

Legislation and Practice of Sentencing in China

133

(6)

Liling Yue

Sentencing Reform in Canada: Who Cares About Corrections'?

139

(18)

Mary E. Campbell

PART II: THE TRUTH ABOUT PUBLIC AND VICTIM PUNITIVENESS: WHAT DO WE KNOW AND WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW?

Public Knowledge and Public Opinion of Sentencing

157

(20)

Mike Hough

Julian V. Roberts

Crisis and Contradictions in a State Sentencing Structure

177

(20)

B. Keith Crew

Gene M. Lutz

Kristine Fahrney

Harsher is not Necessarily Better: Victim Satisfaction with Sentences Imposed under a `Truth in Sentencing' Law

197

(22)

Candace McCoy

Patrick J. McManimon Jr

PART III: MEASURING PUNISHMENT - CONCEPTUAL AND PRACTICAL PROBLEMS AND RESOLUTIONS

European Sentencing Traditions: Accepting Divergence or Aiming for Convergence?

219

(18)

Andrew Ashworth

What's It Worth? A Cross-Jurisdictional Comparison of Sentence Severity

237

(20)

Arie Freiberg

Sentencing Burglars in England and Finland: A Pilot Study

257

(20)

Malcolm Davies

Jukka-Pekka Takala

Jane Tyrer

A New Look at Sentence Severity

277

(31)

Brian J. Ostrom

Charles W. Ostrom Jr

Desert and the Punitiveness of Imprisonment

308

(21)

Gavin Dingwall

Christopher Harding

The Science of Sentencing: Measurement Theory and von Hirsch's New Scales of Justice

329

(31)

Julia Davis

Scaling Punishments: A Reply to Julia Davis

360

(6)

Andrew von Hirsch

Scaling Punishments: A Response to von Hirsch

366

(5)

Julia Davis

PART IV: REASON-GIVING AND APPROACHES TO EXPLAINING SENTENCING

Sentencing Policy and Guilty Plea Discounts

371

(28)

Ralph Henham

Accountability for the Sentencing Decision Process - Towards a New Understanding

399

(30)

Cyrus Tata

Assisting Sentencing, Promoting Justice?

429

(23)

Fergus McNeill

Dangerousness and Risk: from Belgian Positivism to New Penology

452

(17)

Hilde Tubex

Sentencing as Performance: Restoring Drama to the Courtroom

469

(14)

David Tait

PART V: DOING JUSTICE: POWER, EQUALITY AND EQUITY

Sentencing Policy and Racial Justice

483

(21)

Doris Marie Provine

Sentencing Sexual Offenders in the UK and Australia

504

(24)

Kate Warner

Sentencing the Corporate Offender: Legal and Social Issues

528

(20)

Hazel Croall

Jenifer Ross

Sentencing, Inequality and Justice

548

(14)

Neil Hutton

Punishment, Poverty and Responsibility: the Case for a Hardship Defence

562

(13)

Barbara Hudson

CONCLUSION

Reflections

575

(15)

Neil Hutton

Subject Index

590

(4)

Author Index

594

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