Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in Crime and Public Policy SerPublisher: Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (450 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780195350111Subject(s): Punishment | Sentences (Criminal procedure)Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sentencing and Sanctions in Western CountriesDDC classification: 345/.0772 LOC classification: K5121.S46 2001Online resources: Click to ViewIntro -- 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 -- X -- Y -- Z.
This collection of original essays will survey the evolution of sentencing policies and practices in Western countries over the past twenty-five years. The volume will consist of approximately ten essays. Six consider sentencing policy strategies and practices in major western countries, including Australia, England/Wales, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States. Each will be written by a recognized expert from that part of the world. The remaining essays will consider developments and subjects that cross national boundaries. Just a few of the subjects touched upon will include plea-bargaining, community service and electronic monitoring, standards of use of incarceration, and legal perspectives on sentencing policy developments in western countries. The goal of the book is to provide a range of scholars and students better cross-national knowledge than currently exists of how various countries' sentencing laws and practices differ, when and why they have changed over time, and with what effects. Increasingly, countries are likely to look across nation boundaries for boundaries for solutions to pressing sentencing-policy problems. There exists, however, no scholarly literature on the subject.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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