The Politics of Sentencing Reform
Edited by Chris Clarkson and Rod Morgan
Price: £55.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-825872-8
Publication date: 18 May 1995
296 pages, figures, 234x156 mm
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| - ''an excellent overview of sentencing issues alongside case studies of sentencing reform in Victoria, Sweden, Minnesota, Oregon and the USA'|Labour Campaign for Criminal Justice Newsletter' -
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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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Edited by Chris Clarkson, Reader in Law, University of Bristol and
Rod Morgan, Dean of Faculty of Law and Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Bristol
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