Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries : Comparative and Cross-National Perspectives

Tonry, Michael (EDT)

ISBN 10: 022644080X / ISBN 13: 9780226440804

Published by University of Chicago Press Journals, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries : Comparative and Cross-National Perspectives
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press Journals
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 022644080X
• ISBN 13: 9780226440804
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-national Perspectives is the forty-fifth addition to the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Thomas Weigend on criminal sentencing in Germany since 2000; Julian V. Roberts and Andrew Ashworth on the evolution of sentencing policy and practice in England and Wales from 2003 to 2015; Jacqueline Hodgson and Laurène Soubise on understanding the sentencing process in France; Anthony N. Doob and Cheryl Marie Webster on Canadian sentencing policy in the twenty-first century; Arie Freiberg on Australian sentencing policies and practices; Krzysztof Krajewski on sentencing in Poland; Alessandro Corda on Italian policies; Michael Tonry on American sentencing; and Tapio Lappi-Seppälä on penal policy and sentencing in the Nordic countries.

About the Author

Michael Tonry, professor of law emeritus at the University of Minnesota and former director of the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University, is an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law in Freiburg, Germany.