An edition of Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries (2007)
Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries
By Michael Tonry
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Publish Date
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
eng
Pages
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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 onsentencing 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.