Isbn: 9783030010591 - sentencing: a social process: re-thinking research and policy (palgrave socio-legal studies) (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 177 pages. 8.75x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. 2020. 1st ed. 2020. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.…