Proportionate sentencing : exploring the principles / Andrew Von Hirsch and Andrew Ashworth.
- Title
- Proportionate sentencing : exploring the principles / Andrew Von Hirsch and Andrew Ashworth.
- Published by
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.
- Author
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- Description
- xii, 238 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This book is about the principle of proportionality - the principle that a sentence should be proportionate to the seriousness of the offence committed. It examines the detailed arguments for the theory and for applying it to a range of situations including young offenders, dangerous offenders and socially deprived offenders.
- Series statement
- Oxford monographs on criminal law and justice
- Uniform title
- University press scholarship online.
- Oxford monographs on criminal law and criminal justice
- Subject
- Contents
- Introduction: The scope of this book -- The justification for punishment's existence : censure and prevention -- Proportionate sentences for juvenile offenders -- Extending sentences for dangerous offenders? : the Bottoms-Brownsword model -- Proportionate punishment and social deprivation -- Proportionality and punitiveness? -- Proportionality and the "penance" perspective -- Restorative justice : a "making amends" model? / co-author, Clifford Shearing -- Criteria for proportionality : a review.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-230) and index.
- Processing action (note)
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