The Politics of Sentencing Reform

By: Chris Clarkson (Editor), Rod Morgan (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 November 1996

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Sentencing practice and reform has in recent years assumed a high political profile in many jurisdictions. Changing public attitudes about the relative seriousness of different offences, evidence of inconsistent governmental concerns about the escalating costs of criminal justice, and support for a return to more traditional conceptions of justice in the wake of loss of faith in individualistic rehabilitative responses to offending, have all given sharper focus to the reformist agenda. This text brings together case-studies of legislative sentencing reform initiatives in the USA and Canada, Australia, Sweden, and England and Wales alongside three essays by leading international authorities on the impetus for and dynamics of change. The picture that emerges is complex. Changing sentencing policy is a highly political process in which, as these case studies show, options are judged to be acceptable as much for their presentational as their substantive characteristics. Contributors: Rod Morgan, Chris Clarkson, Tony Bottoms, Arie Freiberg, Nils Jareborg, D. A. Thomas, Andrew von Hirsch, Richard S. Frase, Anthony N. Doob, Andrew Ashworth, Michael Tonry

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'an excellent overview of sentencing issues alongside case studies of sentencing reform in Victoria, Sweden, Minnesota, Oregon and the USA'

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List of Contributors
The Politics of Sentencing Reform	p. 1
The Philosophy and Politics of Punishment and Sentencing	p. 17
Sentencing Reform in Victoria: A Case-Study	p. 51
The Swedish Sentencing Reform	p. 95
Sentencing Reform: England and Wales	p. 125
Proportionality and Parsimony in American Sentencing Guidelines: The Minnesota and Oregon Standards	p. 149
Sentencing Guidelines in Minnesota and Other American States: A Progress Report	p. 169
The United States Sentencing Commission Guidelines: If you don't know where you are going, you might not get there	p. 199
Reflections on the Role of the Sentencing Scholar	p. 251
Sentencing Reform Across National Boundaries	p. 267
Index	p. 283
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