Sentencing fragments : penal reform in America, 1975-2025
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016].
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9780190204686, 0190204680
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Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016].
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Book
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xii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
ISBN
9780190204686, 0190204680
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40025574526

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-282) and index.
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Almost everyone agrees - Right on Crime, the ACLU, Koch Industries, George Soros's Open Society Foundation, the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal - that America's current systems for sentencing criminal offenders are a shambles, with crazy quilts of incompatible and conflicting laws, policies, and practices in every state and the federal system. Almost everyone agrees that punishments are too severe, and too many people are in prison. However, the kinds of major changes required to undo mass incarceration and rebuild American sentencing are simply not happening. Despite well-intentioned rhetoric and media coverage, there has been very little meaningful change. In Sentencing Fragments, Michael Tonry explains what needs to be done to rebuild just systems of sentencing and punishment, and how to do it. This book tells the story of sentencing policy changes since 1975, examines research findings concerning their effects, and explains what does and does not work. Beyond calling attention to the devastating effects on the lives of the poor and disadvantaged and the latest empirical evidence, Tonry identifies the common moral theories behind criminal sentencing - as well as their larger assumptions about human nature - and discusses the ways in which different theories have bred very different sentencing policies. Sentencing Fragments concludes with a set of proposals for creating better policies and practices for the future, calling for American legislators and politicians to remake sentencing into the humane and just process that it always should have been. In lucid and engaging prose, Michael Tonry reveals the historical foundation for the current state of the American criminal justice system, while simultaneously offering a game plan for long overdue reform. -- from dust jacket.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Tonry, M. H. (2016). Sentencing fragments: penal reform in America, 1975-2025 . Oxford University Press.

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Tonry, Michael H. 2016. Sentencing Fragments: Penal Reform in America, 1975-2025. Oxford University Press.

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Tonry, Michael H. Sentencing Fragments: Penal Reform in America, 1975-2025 Oxford University Press, 2016.

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Tonry, Michael H. Sentencing Fragments: Penal Reform in America, 1975-2025 Oxford University Press, 2016.

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