Paying for the Past: The Case Against Prior Record Sentence Enhancements

by Julian V. Roberts and Richard S. Frase

All modern sentencing systems, in the US and beyond, consider the offender's prior record to be an important determinant of the form and severity of punishment for subsequent offences. Repeat offenders receive harsher punishments than first offenders, and offenders with longer criminal records are punished more severely than those with shorter records. Yet the vast literature on sentencing policy, law, and practice has generally overlooked the issue...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190254009
• ISBN13: 9780190254001
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"