Deliberative Sentencing: Democracy, Justification, and the Politics of Responding to Crimes

by Jeffrey Kennedy

This book explores criminal sentencing as a political, legal and social process, setting out a democratic account of sentencing in common law jurisdictions.

Taking sentencing as a case study of public decision-making in which judges manage public interests, often through value-laden and discretionary choices, it draws on a particular vision of deliberative democracy. This is a vision on which the legitimacy of sentencing decisions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150997105X
• ISBN13: 9781509971053
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"