Predictive sentencing : normative and empirical perspectives /

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Imprint:	Oxford, UK ; Chicago, Illinois : Hart Publishing, 2019.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Sentences (Criminal procedure) Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13420224

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Other authors / contributors:	Keijser, Jan Willem de, 1968- editor. Roberts, Julian V., editor. Ryberg, Jesper, editor.
ISBN:	1509921427 9781509921423 9781509921416 (hardback) 9781509921430 1509921435
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	"The volume addresses the role of risk assessment in contemporary sentencing practices. Predictive sentencing has become so deeply ingrained in Western criminal justice decision making that despite early ethical discussions about selective incapacitation, it currently attracts little critique. Nor has it been subjected to a thorough normative and empirical scrutiny. This is problematic since much current policy and practice concerning risk predictions is inconsistent with mainstream theories of punishment. Moreover, predictive sentencing exacerbates discrimination and disparity in sentencing. Although structured risk assessments may have replaced 'gut feelings', and have now been systematically implemented in western justice systems, the fundamental issues and questions that surround the use of risk assessment instruments at sentencing remain unresolved. This volume critically evaluates these issues and will be of great interest to scholars of criminal justice and criminology working in the area"--
Other form:	Print version: Predictive sentencing Oxford, UK ; Chicago, Illinois : Hart Publishing, 2019 9781509921416

Table of Contents:

Introduction : normative and empirical perspectives on predictive sentencing / Jan W de Keijser, Julian V Roberts and Jesper Ryberg
The use of risk assessment in sentencing / Esther FJC van Ginneken
Why legal philosophers (including retributivists) should be less resistant to risk-based sentencing / Douglas Husak
Risk and retribution : on the possibility of reconciling considerations of dangerousness and desert / Jesper Ryberg
Is preventive detention morally worse than quarantine? / Thomas Douglas
Against incapacitative punishment / Zachary Hoskins
A defence of modern risk-based sentencing / Christopher Slobogin
Some dilemmas of indeterminate sentences : risk and uncertainty, dignity and hope / Andrew Ashworth and Lucia Zedner
The problematic role of prior record enhancements in predictive sentencing / Julian V Roberts and Richard S Frase
Unpacking sentencing algorithms : risk, racial accountability, and data harms / Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Kelly Struthers Montford
The scientific validity of current approaches to violence and criminal risk assessment / Seena Fazel
Risk assessment at sentencing : the Ppennsylvania experience / Rhys Hester
Predictive sentencing : an analysis of public views / Jan W de Keijser and Sigrid van Wingerden
Sentencing and prediction : old wine in old bottles / Michael Tonry.

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