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