Sentencing: A Social Process: Re-thinking Research And Policy (palgrave Socio-legal Studies)
by Cyrus Tata /
2020 / English / PDF
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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.
