Sentencing: A Social Process: Re-thinking Research and Policy (Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies) - Hardcover

Tata, Cyrus

 
9783030010591: Sentencing: A Social Process: Re-thinking Research and Policy (Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3030010597 ISBN 13: 9783030010591
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot, 2020

Synopsis

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. 


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About the Author

Cyrus Tata is Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Strathclyde University, Scotland, UK. 

From the Back Cover

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.  

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Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3030010597
ISBN 13 
9783030010591
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
190