Sentencing Fragments: Penal Reform in America, 1975-2025

by Michael Tonry

Almost everyone agrees--Right on Crime, the ACLU, Koch Industries, George Soros's Open Society Foundation, the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal--that America's current systems for sentencing criminal offenders are a shambles, with crazy quilts of incompatible and conflicting laws, policies, and practices in every state and the federal system. Most everyone agrees that punishments are too severe, and too many people...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190204680
• ISBN13: 9780190204686
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"