American sentencing : what happens and why? /

American sentencing : what happens and why? /

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Imprint:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2019] ©2019
Description:	viii, 535 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Crime and justice: a review of research ; volume 48 Crime and justice (Chicago, Ill.) ; v. 48.
Subject:	Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- United States. Punishment -- United States. Law reform -- United States. Law reform. Punishment. Sentences (Criminal procedure) United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11945483

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Other authors / contributors:	Tonry, Michael H., editor.
ISBN:	9780226644912 022664491X 9780226645070 022664507X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of efforts in the state and the federal systems to make sentencing fairer, reduce overuse of imprisonment, and help offenders live law-abiding lives. It addresses a variety of topics and themes related to sentencing and reform, including racial disparities, violence prediction, plea negotiation, case processing, federal and state guidelines, California's historic "realignment," and more. This volume covers what students, scholars, practitioners, and policy makers need to know about how sentencing really works, what a half century's "reforms" have and have not accomplished, how sentencing processes can be made fairer, and how sentencing outcomes can be made more just. Its writers are among America's leading scholarly specialists--often the leading specialist--in their fields.

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