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American Sentencing provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of efforts in the state and the federal systems to make sentencing fairer, reduce overuse of imprisonment, and help offenders live law-abiding lives. It addresses a variety of topics and themes related to sentencing and reform, including racial disparities, violence prediction, plea negotiation, case processing, federal and state guidelines, California's historic realignment, and more. This volume covers what students, scholars, practitioners, and policy makers need to know about how sentencing really works, what a half century's reforms have and have not accomplished, how sentencing processes can be made fairer, and how sentencing outcomes can be made more just. Its writers are among America's leading scholarly specialistsoften the leading specialistin their fields. Clearly and accessibly written, American Sentencing is ideal for teaching use in seminars and courses on sentencing, courts, and criminal justice. Its authors' diverse perspectives shed light on these issues, making it likely the single, most authoritative source of information on the state of sentencing in America today.

Crime and Justice Volume 48

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 1 October 2019
      ISBN-13 9780226645070
      978-0226645070
      ISBN-10 022664507X
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      Jurisprudence and general issues

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      American Sentencing provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of efforts in the state and the federal systems to make sentencing fairer, reduce overuse of imprisonment, and help offenders live law-abiding lives. It addresses a variety of topics and themes related to sentencing and reform, including racial disparities, violence prediction, plea negotiation, case processing, federal and state guidelines, California's historic realignment, and more. This volume covers what students, scholars, practitioners, and policy makers need to know about how sentencing really works, what a half century's reforms have and have not accomplished, how sentencing processes can be made fairer, and how sentencing outcomes can be made more just. Its writers are among America's leading scholarly specialistsoften the leading specialistin their fields. Clearly and accessibly written, American Sentencing is ideal for teaching use in seminars and courses on sentencing, courts, and criminal justice. Its authors' diverse perspectives shed light on these issues, making it likely the single, most authoritative source of information on the state of sentencing in America today.

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