This book asks how we should make sense of sentencing when, despite huge efforts world-wide to analyse, critique and reform it, it remains an enigma.Sentencing: A Social Process reveals how both research and policy-thinking about sentencing are confined by a paradigm that presumes autonomous individualism, projecting an artificial image of sentencing practices and policy potential. By conceiving of sentencing instead as a social process, the book advances new policy and research agendas. Sentencing: A Social Process proposes innovative solutions to classic conundrums, including: rules versus discretion; aggravating versus mitigating factors; individualisation versus consistency; punishment versus rehabilitation; efficient technologies versus the quality of justice; and ways of reducing imprisonment.
Author(s): Cyrus Tata
Series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 187
Tags: Juries And Criminal Trials
Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Sentencing Decision-Making: Unravelling the Enigma (Cyrus Tata)....Pages 1-11
Sentencing Research and Policy: Presumed Autonomous Individualism (Cyrus Tata)....Pages 13-49
The Social Production of Sentencing (Cyrus Tata)....Pages 51-74
The Work of the Sentencing Professions: Animating Autonomous Individualism (Cyrus Tata)....Pages 75-92
The Humanising Work of the Sentencing Professions: Individualising and Normalising (Cyrus Tata)....Pages 93-117
The Rise of Technology and the Demise of the Sentencing Professions? (Cyrus Tata)....Pages 119-143
New Directions for Research and Policy (Cyrus Tata)....Pages 145-172
Back Matter ....Pages 173-177
