Sentencing Discretion and the Constitution: Due Process of Time (Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice)

Sentencing Discretion and the Constitution: Due Process of Time introduces important new thinking about the constitutional law of sentencing, the history of sentencing discretion, the baseline for assessing coercion in criminal procedure, and the proportionality problem in criminal-law theory.

Donald A. Dripps is a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Michigan Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Law Review. After law school, he clerked for second-circuit Judge Amalya Lyle Kearse, and then taught at Illinois and Minnesota before joining the faculty of the University of San Diego School of Law. His publications include About Guilt and Innocence: The Origins, Development, and Future of Constitutional Criminal Procedure (Greenwood Press, 2003) and dozens of articles, including contributions to the Yale Law Journal and the California, Columbia, NYU, USC and Vanderbilt law reviews.