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Criminal Sentencing in Bangladesh: From Colonial Legacies to Modernity

Criminal Sentencing in Bangladesh: From Colonial Legacies to Modernity

Author: Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9789004331358
Published In: April 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Disclaimer:
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In Criminal Sentencing in Bangladesh, Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman critically examines the sentencing policies of Bangladesh and demonstrates that the country’s sentencing policies are not only yet to be developed in a coherent manner and shaped with an appropriate and contextual balance, but also remain part of the problem rather than part of the solution.

The author forcefully argues that the conception of ‘sentencing policies’ cannot and should not always be confined exclusively to institutional understandings. The typical realities of post-colonial societies call for rethinking the traditional judiciary-centred understanding of what is meant by criminal sentences. This book thus raises the question for theoretical sentencing scholarship whether the prevailing judiciary-centred understanding of sentencing should be rethought.

Acknowledgements

Foreword: Criminal Sentencing in an Age of Chaos

Professor Werner Menski

List of Abbreviations

1. Introduction

Problems of Sentencing Scholarship Today

Analytical and Methodological Framework of the Book

Structure of the Book

2. Troublesome Issues in Sentencing: Balance in Constantly Changing Contexts

State Power to Criminalise and Punish

Extent of the Criminalisation Power

Nature of the Power to Punish