Thinking about punishment : penal policy across space, time, and discipline /

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Main Author: Tonry, Michael H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
Series:Pioneers in contemporary criminology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Malign neglect
  • Ethnicity, crime, and immigration
  • The malign effects of drugs and crime control policies on Black Americans / with Matthew Melewski
  • Symbol, substance, and severity in western penal policies
  • Punishment policies and patterns in western countries
  • Determinants of penal policies
  • Sense and sensibility in American penal culture
  • Cycles and sensibilities
  • Emerging explanations of American punishment policies
  • Sentencing reform in America / with Norval Morris
  • Mandatory penalties
  • Sentencing matters
  • Purposes and functions of sentencing
  • Interchangeability of punishments in principle / with Norval Morris
  • Proportionality, parsimony, and interchangeability of punishments
  • Obsolesence and immanence in penal theory and policy.