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Of One-eyed and Toothless Miscreants - Making the Punishment Fit the Crime? (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,919
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Of One-eyed and Toothless Miscreants - Making the Punishment Fit the Crime? (Hardcover): Michael Tonry

Of One-eyed and Toothless Miscreants - Making the Punishment Fit the Crime? (Hardcover)

Michael Tonry

Series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy

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Can punishments ever meaningfully be proportioned in severity to the seriousness of the crimes for which they are imposed? A great deal of attention has been paid to the general justification of punishment, but the thorny practical questions have received significantly less. Serious analysis has seldom delved into what makes crimes more or less serious, what makes punishments more or less severe, and how links are to be made between them. In Of One-eyed and Toothless Miscreants, Michael Tonry has gathered together a distinguished cast of contributors to offer among the first sustained efforts to specify with precision how proportionality can be understood in relation to the implementation of punishment. Each chapter examines scholarly and lay thinking about punishment of people convicted of crimes with particular emphasis on "making the punishment fit the crime." The contributors challenge the most prevalent current theories and emphasize the need for a shift away from the politicized emotionalism of recent decades. They argue that theories that coincided with mass incarceration and rampant injustice to countless individuals are evolving in ways that better countenance moving toward more humane and thoughtful approaches. Written by many of the leading thinkers on punishment, this volume dissects previously undeveloped issues related to considerations of deserved punishment and provides new ways to understand both the severities of punishment and the seriousness of crime.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy
Release date: November 2019
Editors: Michael Tonry (McKnight Presidential Professor of Criminal Law and Policy)
Dimensions: 242 x 162 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-007059-5
Categories: Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Jurisprudence & philosophy of law
Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Criminal law
Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Courts & procedure > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > General
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LSN: 0-19-007059-5
Barcode: 9780190070595

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