Sentencing as a Social Process: Rethinking Research and Policy

By Cyrus Tata

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030010597
• ISBN13: 9783030010591
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"