Research Catalog

Title

Principled sentencing / edited by Andrew von Hirsch, Andrew Ashworth.

Publication

Boston : Northeastern University Press, c1992.

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Additional Authors

• Von Hirsch, Andrew
• Ashworth, Andrew

Description

x, 419 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Sentences (Criminal procedure) > Great Britain
• Sentences (Criminal procedure) > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• I. Rehabilitation. 1. The model penal code -- 2. How effective are penal treatments? / Stephen Brody -- 3. Rehabilitation and dignity / Herbert Morris -- 4. The decline of the rehabilitative ideal / Francis A. Allen -- 5. Reaffirming rehabilitation / Francis T. Cullen, Karen E. Gilbert -- 6. Should penal rehabilitationism be revived? / Andrew von Hirsch, Lisa Maher -- II. Deterrence. 1. Punishment and deterrence / Jeremy Bentham -- 2. Optimal sanctions : any upper limits? / Richard Posner -- 3. How "evidence" of deterrence can mislead / Royal Commission on Capital Punishment -- 4. Deterrence research and deterrence policies / Deryck Beyleveld -- 5. Deterrence theory : its moral problems / Alan H. Goldman -- III. Incapacitation. 1. Sentencing on the basis of risk : the model sentencing act -- 2. Prediction and false positives / Andrew von Hirsch -- 3. Extending sentences for dangerous offenders / Jean Floud --^
• 4. Extending sentences for dangerous offenders : some objections / David Wood -- 5. Incapacitation within limits / Norval Morris -- 6. Selective incapacitation / James Q. Wilson -- 7. Selective incapacitation : some doubts / Andrew von Hirsch -- 8. Selective incapacitation / the debate over its ethics / Michael Tonry -- IV. Desert. 1. The moral worth of retribution / Michael S. Moore -- 2. Proportionate punishments / Andrew von Hirsch -- 3. Desert as a limiting principle / Norval Morris -- 4. Ordinal and cardinal desert / Andrew von Hirsch -- 5. Gauging criminal harm : a living-standard analysis / Andrew von Hirsch, Nils Jareborg -- 6. Desert and the role of previous convictions / Martin Wasik -- 7. Desert and prevention : hybrid principles / Paul Robinson -- V. Structuring sentencing discretion. 1. Lawlessness in sentencing / Marvin Frankel -- 2. The functions of a sentencing commission / Andrew von Hirsch -- 3. Three techniques for reducing sentence disparity / Andrew Ashworth --^
• 4. The Swedish sentencing law -- 5. Plea bargaining and enforcement of sentencing guidelines / Michael Tonry, John C. Coffee, Jr. -- VI. Community punishments. 1. "Alternatives" to incarceration : substitutes or supplements? / James Austin, Barry Krisberg -- 2. Community punishments as sanctions in their own right / Canadian Sentencing Commission -- 3. Day fines : monetary sanctions apportioned to income / Judith Greene -- 4. Intensive supervision probation : how and for whom? / Todd R. Clear, Patricia L. Hardyman -- 5. Between prison and probation / Norval Morris, Michael Tonry -- 6. Scaling community punishments / Andrew von Hirsch, Martin Wasik, Judith Greene -- VII. Looking beyond the sentence. 1. Sentencing the wider society -- 2. Sentencing theory and prosecutorial processes -- 3. Confiscation, compensation, and the role of the victim.

ISBN

• 1555531407 (pb) :
• 1555531393 (cl) :

LCCN

^^^92013432^

OCLC

• 25674810
• SCSB-10258556

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