| Sentencing: A Social Process: Re-Thinking Research and Policy 2020 Edition Contributor(s): Tata, Cyrus (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030010597 ISBN-13: 9783030010591 Publisher: Palgrave Pivot OUR PRICE: $66.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Criminology - Political Science | Public Policy - General - Social Science | Penology |
| Dewey: 320.6 |
| Series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.84 lbs) 177 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book asks how we should make sense of sentencing when, despite huge efforts world-wide to analyse, critique and reform it, it remains an enigma.Sentencing: A Social Process reveals how both research and policy-thinking about sentencing are confined by a paradigm that presumes autonomous individualism, projecting an artificial image of sentencing practices and policy potential. By conceiving of sentencing instead as a social process, the book advances new policy and research agendas. Sentencing: A Social Process proposes innovative solutions to classic conundrums, including: rules versus discretion; aggravating versus mitigating factors; individualisation versus consistency; punishment versus rehabilitation; efficient technologies versus the quality of justice; and ways of reducing imprisonment. |