Research Catalog

Title

Thinking about punishment : penal policy across space, time, and discipline / Michael Tonry.

Author

Tonry, Michael H.

Publication

Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.

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Details

Description

xxxv, 518 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

By drawing together articles from a wide range of journals, conference proceedings and books, each title in this series makes readily available the authors' most important writings on specific themes in criminology. Each volume features an outline of the work and comments on its significance and potential.

Series Statement

Pioneers in contemporary criminology

Subject

Punishment

Note

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Malign neglect -- Ethnicity, crime, and immigration -- The malign effects of drugs and crime control policies on Black Americans / with Matthew Melewski -- Symbol, substance, and severity in western penal policies -- Punishment policies and patterns in western countries -- Determinants of penal policies -- Sense and sensibility in American penal culture -- Cycles and sensibilities -- Emerging explanations of American punishment policies -- Sentencing reform in America / with Norval Morris -- Mandatory penalties -- Sentencing matters -- Purposes and functions of sentencing -- Interchangeability of punishments in principle / with Norval Morris -- Proportionality, parsimony, and interchangeability of punishments -- Obsolesence and immanence in penal theory and policy.

ISBN

• 9780754629054
• 0754629058

LCCN

^^2009930409

OCLC

• 521733443
• SCSB-10183460

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library