Criminal Sentences
Author : Marvin E. Frankel
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 22,23 MB
Release : 1973-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780809013746
Guidelines Manual
Author : United States Sentencing Commission
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 26,91 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 : 24,97 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 : 30,22 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 : 47,66 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.
ABA Standards for Criminal Justice
Author : American Bar Association
Publisher :
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 50,7 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.
Life Without Parole
Author : Charles J. Ogletree
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,31 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.
The Bail Book
Author : Shima Baradaran Baughman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107131367
Book Description
Examines the causes for mass incarceration of Americans and calls for the reform of the bail system. Traces the history of bail, how it has come to be an oppressive tool of the courts, and makes recommendations for reforming the bail system and alleviating the mass incarceration problem.
Federal Sentencing the Basics
Author : United States Sentencing Commission
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2019-08-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781688991422
Book Description
This paper provides an overview of the federal sentencing system. For historicalcontext, it first briefly discusses the evolution of federal sentencing during the past fourdecades, including the landmark passage of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (SRA),1 inwhich Congress established a new federal sentencing system based primarily on sentencingguidelines, as well as key Supreme Court decisions concerning the guidelines. It thendescribes the nature of federal sentences today and the process by which such sentencesare imposed. The final parts of this paper address appellate review of sentences; therevocation of offenders' terms of probation and supervised release; the process whereby theUnited States Sentencing Commission (the Commission) amends the guidelines; and theCommission's collection and analysis of sentencing data.
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Author : Cesare Beccaria
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 36,11 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 1584776382
Book Description
Reprint of the fourth edition, which contains an additional text attributed to Voltaire. Originally published anonymously in 1764, Dei Delitti e Delle Pene was the first systematic study of the principles of crime and punishment. Infused with the spirit of the Enlightenment, its advocacy of crime prevention and the abolition of torture and capital punishment marked a significant advance in criminological thought, which had changed little since the Middle Ages. It had a profound influence on the development of criminal law in Europe and the United States.
