The Politics of Sentencing Reform

by Rodney Morgan and C.M.V. Clarkson

Sentencing practice and reform has in recent years assumed a high political profile in many jurisdictions. Changing public attitudes about the relative seriousness of different offenses, evidence of inconsistent governmental concerns about the escalating costs of criminal justice, and support for a return to more traditional conceptions of justice in the wake of loss of faith in individualistic rehabilitative responses to offending, have all given...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198258720
• ISBN13: 9780198258728
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"