Penal reform in Overcrowded times / edited by Michael Tonry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tonry, Michael H., editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sentences (Criminal procedure).

Corrections.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume brings together a collection of articles on penal reform in the United States, Europe, Japan, and other English-speaking countries. Unique and wide-ranging, the volume provides material on penal policy development and research and presents an international, comparative focus. Written by leading national and international authorities, it offers some of the broadest efforts to characterize recent penal trends and to analyze their causes and consequences.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Penal Policies at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century; The Importance of Penal Policy; The Determinants of Penal Policy; The Transferability of Penal Policy; The Spread of Innovation; ONE: Penal Developments in America; The Punitiveness Story; The Sentencing Story; The Fragmentation Story; The United States; Early State Guidelines Systems; North Carolina; TWO: Penal Developments in Europe and Japan; Incarceration Rates across the World; Scandinavia; Germany; France; Netherlands; Switzerland; Japan

THREE: Penal Developments in English-Speaking CountriesAustralia; Canada; England/Wales; Ireland; References; Acknowledgments;

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-276).

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772015-3

1-280-48161-7

1-4237-3857-8

0-19-534967-9

1-60256-439-6

OCLC:

191038393