Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries

By Michael Tonry

Subjects: Punishment, Straftoemeting, Sancties, Straffen, LAW, Sentences (criminal procedure), Law, Peines, Sentencing, Sentences (Procédure pénale), Sentences (Criminal procedure), Criminaliteit, Nonfiction, Criminal Law, Sanctions (law)

Description: This collection of original essays surveys the evolution of sentencing policies and practices in Western countries over the past twenty-five years. Contributors address plea-bargaining, community service, electronic monitoring, standards of use of incarceration, and legal perspectives onsentencing policy developments, among other topics. Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries provides a range of scholars and students excellent cross-national knowledge of sentencing laws and practices, when and why they have changed over time, and with what effects.