Oxford University Press, USA
Of One-Eyed and Toothless Miscreants: Making the Punishment Fit the Crime?
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- Michael Tonry
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Hardcover
- 9780190070595
- 9.3 X 6.1 X 1 inches
- 1.3 pounds
- Law > Criminal Law - Sentencing
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
In Of One-eyed and Toothless Miscreants, Michael Tonry has gathered together a distinguished cast of contributors to offer among the first sustained efforts to specify with precision how proportionality can be understood in relation to the implementation of punishment. Each chapter examines scholarly and lay thinking about punishment of people convicted of crimes with particular emphasis on making the punishment fit the crime. The contributors challenge the most prevalent current theories and emphasize the need for a shift away from the politicized emotionalism of recent decades. They argue that theories that coincided with mass incarceration and rampant injustice to countless individuals are evolving in ways that better countenance moving toward more humane and thoughtful approaches.
Written by many of the leading thinkers on punishment, this volume dissects previously undeveloped issues related to considerations of deserved punishment and provides new ways to understand both the severities of punishment and the seriousness of crime.
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