Criminal Sentences
Author : Marvin E. Frankel
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 1973-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780809013746
Guidelines Manual
Author : United States Sentencing Commission
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Sentences (Criminal procedure)
ISBN :
Book Description
Deserved Criminal Sentences
Author : Andreas von Hirsch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 1509902678
Book Description
This book provides an accessible and systematic restatement of the desert model for criminal sentencing by one of its leading academic exponents. The desert model emphasises the degree of seriousness of the offender's crime in deciding the severity of his punishment, and has become increasingly influential in recent penal practice and scholarly debate. It explains why sentences should be based principally on crime-seriousness, and addresses, among other topics, how a desert-based penalty scheme can be constructed; how to gauge punishments' seriousness and penalties' severity; what weight should be given to an offender's previous convictions; how non-custodial sentences should be scaled; and what leeway there might be for taking other factors into account, such as an offender's need for treatment. The volume will be of interest to all those working in penal theory and practice, criminal sentencing and the criminal law more generally.
Punishment Without Crime
Author : Alexandra Natapoff
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 0465093809
Book Description
A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals. Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff reveals the inner workings of a massive petty offense system that produces over 13 million cases each year. People arrested for minor crimes are swept through courts where defendants often lack lawyers, judges process cases in mere minutes, and nearly everyone pleads guilty. This misdemeanor machine starts punishing people long before they are convicted; it punishes the innocent; and it punishes conduct that never should have been a crime. As a result, vast numbers of Americans -- most of them poor and people of color -- are stigmatized as criminals, impoverished through fines and fees, and stripped of drivers' licenses, jobs, and housing. For too long, misdemeanors have been ignored. But they are crucial to understanding our punitive criminal system and our widening economic and racial divides. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018
North Carolina Sentencing Handbook with Felony, Misdemeanor, and DWI Sentencing Grids 2018
Author : James M. Markham
Publisher : Unc School of Government
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 2018-11
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : 9781560119357
Book Description
This book is a step-by-step guide to the sentencing of felonies, misdemeanors, and impaired driving in North Carolina. It includes the felony and misdemeanor sentencing grids that apply under Structured Sentencing and a table showing the different sentencing levels for DWI. The book also includes materials on diversion programs (deferred prosecution and conditional discharge), probation supervision, fines and fees, and sex offender registration.
Just Sentencing
Author : Richard S. Frase
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 15,66 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199757860
Book Description
This title presents a fully developed punishment theory which incorporates both utilitarian and retributive sentencing purposes. The author describes and defends a hybrid sentencing model that integrates theory and practice - blending and balancing both the competing principles of retribution and rehabilitation and the procedural concern of weighing rules against discretion.
Criminal Sentencing in Bangladesh
Author : Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004341935
Book Description
In Criminal Sentencing in Bangladesh, Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman critically examines the sentencing policies of Bangladesh and demonstrates that the country’s sentencing policies are not only yet to be developed in a coherent manner and shaped with an appropriate and contextual balance, but also remain part of the problem rather than part of the solution. The author forcefully argues that the conception of ‘sentencing policies’ cannot and should not always be confined exclusively to institutional understandings. The typical realities of post-colonial societies call for rethinking the traditional judiciary-centred understanding of what is meant by criminal sentences. This book thus raises the question for theoretical sentencing scholarship whether the prevailing judiciary-centred understanding of sentencing should be rethought.
ABA Standards for Criminal Justice
Author : American Bar Association
Publisher :
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 9781570737138
Book Description
"Project of the American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Standards Committee, Criminal Justice Section"--T.p. verso.
End of Its Rope
Author : Brandon Garrett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0674970993
Book Description
An awakening -- Inevitability of innocence -- Mercy vs. justice -- The great American death penalty decline -- The defense lawyering effect -- Murder insurance -- The other death penalty -- The execution decline -- End game -- The triumph of mercy
Life Without Parole
Author : Charles J. Ogletree
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,35 MB
Release : 2012-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814762484
Book Description
Is life without parole the perfect compromise to the death penalty? Or is it as ethically fraught as capital punishment? This comprehensive, interdisciplinary anthology treats life without parole as “the new death penalty.” Editors Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat bring together original work by prominent scholars in an effort to better understand the growth of life without parole and its social, cultural, political, and legal meanings. What justifies the turn to life imprisonment? How should we understand the fact that this penalty is used disproportionately against racial minorities? What are the most promising avenues for limiting, reforming, or eliminating life without parole sentences in the United States? Contributors explore the structure of life without parole sentences and the impact they have on prisoners, where the penalty fits in modern theories of punishment, and prospects for (as well as challenges to) reform.
