Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries
1st Edition
Published on 31. May 2001
450 pages
978-0-19-535011-1 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of original essays surveys the evolution of sentencing policies and practices in Western countries over the past twenty-five years. Contributors address plea-bargaining, community service, electronic monitoring, standards of use of incarceration, and legal perspectives on sentencing policy developments, among other topics. Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries provides a range of scholars and students excellent cross-national knowledge of sentencing laws and practices, when and why they have changed over time, and with what effects.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- Punishment Policies and Patterns in Western Countries
- 1 Three Strikes and You're Out-It's Not Cricket: Colonization and Resistance in Australian Sentencing
- 2 The Decline of English Sentencing and Other Stories
- 3 Sentencing and Punishment in Finland: The Decline of the Repressive Ideal
- 4 Sentencing and Punishment in The Netherlands
- 5 Sentencing and Punishment in Germany
- 6 The Disassembly and Reassembly of U.S. Sentencing Practices
- 7 Comparative Perspectives on Sentencing Policy and Research
- 8 Post-Adjudication Dispositions in Comparative Perspective
- 9 International Standards for Sentencing and Punishment
- 10 International Controls on Sentencing and Punishment
- 11 The Project of Sentencing Reform
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
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