Sentencing policies and practices in Western countries : comparative and cross-national perspectives /

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Imprint:Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Description:ix, 508 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
Series:Crime and justice ; volume 45
Crime and justice (Chicago, Ill.) ; v. 45.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10898432
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Other authors / contributors:Tonry, Michael H.
ISBN:9780226440774 (cloth)
022644077X (cloth)
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Differences in National Sentencing Systems and the Differences They Make
  • Nordic Sentencing
  • No News Is Good News: Criminal Sentencing in Germany since 2000
  • Sentencing and Penal Policies in Italy, 1985-2015: The Tale of a Troubled Country
  • Sentencing in Poland: Failed Attempts to Reduce Punitiveness
  • Understanding the Sentencing Process in France
  • Belgian Sentencing as a Bifurcated Practice?
  • The Evolution of Sentencing Policy and Practice in England and Wales, 2003-2015
  • Weathering the Storm? Testing Long-Standing Canadian Sentencing Policy in the Twenty-First Century
  • The Road Well Traveled in Australia: Ignoring the Past, Condemning the Future
  • Equality and Human Dignity: The Missing Ingredients in American Sentencing
  • Index