Name: Sentencing: A Social Process - Re-thinking Research and Policy
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 9783030010591
Price: 779.87 HKD
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Author: Cyrus Tata
ISBN: 9783030010591

Sentencing: A Social Process - Re-thinking Research and Policy

By Cyrus Tata

Palgrave Macmillan January 2020

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9783030010591
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication: January 2020
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

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. The author 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.

Table of Contents

Sentencing Decision-Making: Unravelling the Enigma

Sentencing Research and Policy: Presumed Autonomous Individualism

The Social Production of Sentencing

The Work of the Sentencing Professions: Animating Autonomous Individualism

The Humanising Work of the Sentencing Professions: Individualising and Normalising;