This volume brings together a collection of articles on penal reform in the United States, Europe, Japan, and other English-speaking countries. Unique and wide-ranging, the volume provides material on penal policy development and research and presents an international, comparative focus. Written by leading national and international authorities, it offers some of the broadest efforts to characterize recent penal trends and to analyze their causes and consequences.
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"This book provides the reader with a wealth of information and insight into the sentencing practices of a range of criminal justice systems." --The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
"Michael Tonry's book succeeds in providing useful information and analyses of fourteen countries. The book is very useful in positing theories and raising questions about the roles of politics, public opinion, and other social factors in shaping developments affecting criminal punishments." --Law and Politics Book Review
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Michael Tonry is at University of Cambridge.
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Penal reform is or recently has been on the policy agenda of every Western jurisdiction. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
active prison terms, unconditional prison sentences, mitigated range, penal value, structured sentencing, presumptive range, connnunity service, previous criminality, prosecution guidelines, sentencing grid, prison capacity, overcrowded times, prison counts, sentencing changes, intermediate punishments, guideline judgments, penal climate, penal populism, prisoner rate, sentencing rules, sentencing legislation, prison admissions, sentences arc, correctional resources, sentencing patterns Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Carolina, New South Wales, General Assembly, Court of Appeal, South Australia, Northern Territory, British Columbia, Bureau of Justice Statistics, World War, Council of Europe, Western Europe, Criminal Justice Act, Home Office, New Zealand, Nova Scotia, Australian Bureau of Statistics, New Brunswick, United Stales, Year Figure, Hoge Raad, Marvin Frankel, Selected Years, State-County Criminal Justice Partnership Act New!
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Penal reform is or recently has been on the policy agenda of every Western jurisdiction. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
active prison terms, unconditional prison sentences, mitigated range, penal value, structured sentencing, presumptive range, connnunity service, previous criminality, prosecution guidelines, sentencing grid, prison capacity, overcrowded times, prison counts, sentencing changes, intermediate punishments, guideline judgments, penal climate, penal populism, prisoner rate, sentencing rules, sentencing legislation, prison admissions, sentences arc, correctional resources, sentencing patterns Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Carolina, New South Wales, General Assembly, Court of Appeal, South Australia, Northern Territory, British Columbia, Bureau of Justice Statistics, World War, Council of Europe, Western Europe, Criminal Justice Act, Home Office, New Zealand, Nova Scotia, Australian Bureau of Statistics, New Brunswick, United Stales, Year Figure, Hoge Raad, Marvin Frankel, Selected Years, State-County Criminal Justice Partnership Act New!
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- Crime and Justice, Volume 27: A Review of Research (Crime and Justice: A Review of Research) by Michael Tonry on 5 pages
- Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries (Studies in Crime & Public Policy) by Michael Tonry on 5 pages
- The Politics of Sentencing Reform by Chris Clarkson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) by Katherine Beckett on page 39, and page 264
- Making Sense of Sentencing by David P. Cole in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Re-thinking the Political Economy of Punishment: Perspectives on Post-fordism And Penal Politics (Advances in Criminology) (Advances in Criminology) by Alessandro De Giorgi on page 101, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Thinking about Crime: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) by Michael Tonry in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Robben Island and Prisoner Resistance to Apartheid by Fran Lisa Buntman on page 289
- Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison (California Series in Public Anthropology, 7) by Lorna A. Rhodes in Back Matter
- Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) by Jeff Manza in Back Matter
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