Just Sentencing
Principles and Procedures for a Workable System
For most of the 20th Century, sentencing purposes and procedures were virtually the same in all American jurisdictions. The primary sentencing goal was rehabilitation, to be accomplished mostly in prison. To achieve this goal, judges and parole boards were given broad discretionary powers. In the 1970s, legal scholars and critics began to question such unfettered discretion, and to advocate for a system of prison-as-punishment, not as moral reeducation. Lawmakers began to experiment with mandatory penalties and other limits on sentencing discretion. These changes broke the previously uniform standard of sentencing in America. Today, sentencin…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-996890-9
- EAN: 9780199968909
- Produktnummer: 14822836
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'615 KB
- Abbildungen: 6 b/w line
Über den Autor
Richard S. Frase is the Benjamin N. Berger Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Minnesota.
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