Thinking about punishment: penal policy across space, time, and discipline/ Michael Tonry
Material type: TextPublication details: England: Ashgate, c2009Description: xxxv, 518 pISBN: 9780754629054DDC classification: 364.6Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 364.6 TON/T (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P28735 |
I. Race and ethnicity. 1. Malign neglect --
2. Ethnicity, crime, and immigration --
3. The malign effects of drugs and crime control policies on Black Americans / with Matthew Melewski --
II. Comparative penal policy. 4. Symbol, substance, and severity in western penal policies --
5. Punishment policies and patterns in western countries --
6. Determinants of penal policies --
III. American penal policy. 7. Sense and sensibility in American penal culture --
8. Cycles and sensibilities --
9. Emerging explanations of American punishment policies --
IV. Sentencing policy. 10. Sentencing reform in America / with Norval Morris --
11. Mandatory penalties --
12. Sentencing matters --
13. Purposes and functions of sentencing --
V. Punishment theory. 14. Interchangeability of punishments in principle / with Norval Morris --
15. Proportionality, parsimony, and interchangeability of punishments --
16. Obsolescence and immanence in penal theory and policy.
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