Sentencing : a social process : re-thinking research and policy /
Author / Creator: | Tata, Cyrus. |
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Imprint: | Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 177 pages) |
Language: | English |
Series: | Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies Palgrave Macmillan socio-legal studies. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12456281 |
Summary: | 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. |
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Item Description: | 2 Performing Legitimacy: The Cultivation of Ideal Clientele |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 177 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9783030010607 3030010600 9783030010591 |