Proportionate Sentencing: Exploring the Principles (Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice) - Hardcover

Von Hirsch, Andrew; Ashworth, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199272603 ISBN 13: 9780199272600

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This book is about the principle of proportionality--the principle that a sentence should be proportionate to the seriousness of the offense committed. Although the principle has often been discussed, this book breaks new ground by examining more fully the detailed arguments for the theory and for applying it to a range of situations including young offenders, dangerous offenders and socially deprived offenders. The authors are well known for their previous...

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Andrew von Hirsch is Honorary Professor of Penal Theory and Penal Law at the University of Cambridge. Andrew Ashworth is Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford.

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`...von Hirsch and Ashworth present us with a set of theoretically sophisticated and pragmatically sensible observations on a series of difficult and pressing issues...frequently subtle and complex...[an] honest and thoughtful discussion of the subject of state punishment.'
Youngjae Lee, Criminal Law and Philosophy 2007 1:227-231

`...a scholarly and erudite contribution...we must endeavour to understand fully the developments of theory, and this book is a sound starting place.'
Judge Gilles Renaud, The Criminal Law...

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Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0199272603
• ISBN 13: 9780199272600
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256