Sentencing: A Social Process
This book asks how we should make sense of sentencing when, despite huge efforts world-wide to analyse, critique and reform it, it remains an enigma.Sentencing: A Social Process reveals how both research and policy-thinking about sentencing are confined by a paradigm that presumes autonomous individualism, projecting an artificial image of sentencing practices and policy potential. By conceiving of sentencing instead as a social process, the book advances new policy and research agendas. Sentencing: A Social Process proposes innovative solutions to classic conundrums, including: rules versus discretion; aggravating versus mitigating factors; individualisation versus consistency; punishment versus rehabilitation; efficient technologies versus the quality of justice; and ways of reducing imprisonment.
1. Unravelling the Enigma of Sentencing Decision-Making
2. Sentencing Research and Policy: Presumed Autonomous Individualism
3. The Social Production of Sentencing
4. Reproducing Autonomous Individualism: the Work of the Sentencing Professions
5. Individualising and Normalising: The Humanising Work of the Sentencing Professions
6. The Rise of Technology and the Demise of the Sentencing Professions?
7. New Directions for Research and Policy.
Tata, Cyrus
| ISBN | 978-3-030-01059-1 |
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| Article number | 9783030010591 |
| Media type | Book |
| Edition number | 1st ed. 2020 |
| Copyright year | 2020 |
| Publisher | Springer, Berlin |
| Length | XIII, 177 pages |
| Illustrations | XIII, 177 p. 1 illus. |
| Language | English |
