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Sentencing Fragments - Penal Reform in America, 1975-2025 (Hardcover)
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Sentencing Fragments - Penal Reform in America, 1975-2025 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy
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Sentencing matters. Life, liberty, and property are at stake.
Convicted offenders and victims care about it for obvious reasons,
while judges and prosecutors also have a moral stake in the
process. Never-the-less, the current system of sentencing criminal
offenders is in a shambles, with a crazy quilt of incompatible and
conflicting laws, policies, and practices in each state, not to
mention an entirely different process at the federal level. In
Sentencing Fragments, Michael Tonry traces four decades of American
sentencing policy and practice to illuminate the convoluted
sentencing system, from early reforms in the mid-1970's to the
transition towards harsher sentences in the mid-1980's. The book
combines a history of policy with an examination of current
research findings regarding the consequences of the sentencing
system, calling attention to the devastatingly unjust effects on
the lives of the poor and disadvantaged. Tonry concludes with a set
of proposals for creating better policies and practices for the
future, with the hope of ultimately creating a more just legal
system. Lucid and engaging, Sentencing Fragments sheds a
much-needed light on the historical foundation for the current
dynamic of the American criminal justice system, while
simultaneously offering a useful tool for potential reform.
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