Thinking about punishment: penal policy across space, time, and discipline/
Michael Tonry
- England: Ashgate, c2009.
- xxxv, 518 p.
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.