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

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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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  • ISBN-13: 9783030010591
  • ISBN-10: 3030010597
  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
  • Publish Date: January 2020
  • Dimensions: 8.27 x 5.83 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.84 pounds
  • Page Count: 177

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