Decisions To Imprison

Author : Rasmus H. Wandall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317153887

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Decisions to Imprison by Rasmus H. Wandall Pdf

Rasmus Wandall uses quantitative and qualitative methods from studies carried out in Denmark, to address the formal and informal norms and ideologies that are used to generate decisions to imprison. Focusing on the operations of the courtroom participants, his work investigates how court decision-making is organized to allow the sentencing procedure to be open to more than its formal legal framework, while at the same time keeping the sentencing within the boundaries of law and legal validity. The author uses the theory of law's operational closure, developed by Niklas Luhmann. The theory provides an advantageous point of departure to capture the close and subtle interactions between law's need for validity and for contextual openness in every legal operation - including court decision-making.

Author : Dirk Van Zyl Smit,United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : UCBK:C104873017

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Handbook of Basic Principles and Promising Practices on Alternatives to Imprisonment by Dirk Van Zyl Smit,United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Pdf

Introduces the reader to the basic principles central to understanding alternatives to imprisonment as well as descriptions of promising practices implemented throughout the world. This handbook offers information about alternatives to imprisonment at various stages of the criminal justice process.

Author : J. M. Hough,Jessica Jacobson,Andrew Millie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Prison sentences
ISBN : 0946209669

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The Decision to Imprision by J. M. Hough,Jessica Jacobson,Andrew Millie Pdf

Author : Allan Manson,Patrick Healy,Gary T. Trotter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060804031

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Sentencing and Penal Policy in Canada by Allan Manson,Patrick Healy,Gary T. Trotter Pdf

Author : Meda Chesney-Lind,Marc Mauer
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781595587367

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Invisible Punishment by Meda Chesney-Lind,Marc Mauer Pdf

In a series of newly commissioned essays from the leading scholars and advocates in criminal justice, Invisible Punishment explores, for the first time, the far-reaching consequences of our current criminal justice policies. Adopted as part of “get tough on crime” attitudes that prevailed in the 1980s and ’90s, a range of strategies, from “three strikes” and “a war on drugs,” to mandatory sentencing and prison privatization, have resulted in the mass incarceration of American citizens, and have had enormous effects not just on wrong-doers, but on their families and the communities they come from. This book looks at the consequences of these policies twenty years later.

Author : Diarmuid Griffin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319726670

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Killing Time by Diarmuid Griffin Pdf

Little is known about life imprisonment and the process of releasing offenders back into the community in Ireland. Addressing this scarcity of information, Griffin’s empirical study examines the legal and policy framework surrounding life imprisonment and parole. Through an analysis of the rationales expressed by parole decision-makers in the exercise of their discretionary power of release, it is revealed that decision-makers view public protection as central to the process. However, the risk of reoffending features amidst an array of other factors that also influence parole outcomes including personal interpretations of the purposes of punishment, public opinion and the political landscape within which parole operates. The findings of this study are employed to provide a rationale for the upward trend in time served by life sentence prisoners prior to release in recent times. With reform of parole now on the political agenda, will a more formal process of release operate to constrain the increase in time served witnessed over the last number of decades or will the upward trajectory continue unabated?

Author : Dr Martin Luther King,Martin Luther King, Jr.
Publisher : HarperOne
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2025-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0063425815

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Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Dr Martin Luther King,Martin Luther King, Jr. Pdf

Author : Judicial Commission of New South Wales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Sentences (Criminal procedure)
ISBN : 0731356136

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Sentencing Bench Book by Judicial Commission of New South Wales Pdf

This book contains commentary on three key sentencing statutes, and on sentencing law for nine offence categories.

Author : Norval Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1977-06-01
Category : Imprisonment
ISBN : 0226539067

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The Future of Imprisonment by Norval Morris Pdf

Author : Margo Schlanger,Sheila Bedi,David M. Shapiro,Lynn S. Branham
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
Page : 1071 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1683287967

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Incarceration and the Law, Cases and Materials by Margo Schlanger,Sheila Bedi,David M. Shapiro,Lynn S. Branham Pdf

In the age of American mass incarceration, a complex legal regime governs prison conditions and presents a host of controversial questions at the intersection of constitutional liberty, statutory interpretation, administrative regulation, and public policy. This is a completely overhauled, re-titled, and much-expanded version of the leading casebook about incarceration. It addresses both pretrial and post-conviction incarceration, presenting Supreme Court and leading lower court case law, statutes, litigation materials, professional standards, academic commentary, and prisoner writing. Topics include conditions of confinement, civil liberties, particular prisoner populations and relevant legal issues (race and national origin discrimination, the particular issues/law governing treatment of incarcerated women, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities). Litigated remedies (injunctive litigation, damages, the Prison Litigation Reform Act, and criminal prosecution of prison staff), are also covered in detail, as is non-litigation oversight. The casebook is supplemented by an open-access website that offers additional resources and sources for further reading.

Author : Michael Tonry
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0195314107

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The Future of Imprisonment by Michael Tonry Pdf

The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have toughened, compassion for prisoners has diminished, and prisons have gotten worse-a stark contrast to the origins of the prison 200 years ago as a humanitarian reform, a substitute for capital and corporal punishment and banishment. So what went wrong? How can prisons be made simultaneously more effective and more humane? Who should be sent there in the first place? What should happen to them while they are inside? When, how, and under what conditions should they be released? The Future of Imprisonment unites some of the leading prisons and penal policy scholars of our time to address these fundamental questions. Inspired by the work of Norval Morris, the contributors look back to the past twenty-five years of penal policy in an effort to look forward to the prison's twenty-first century future. Their essays examine the effects of current high levels of imprisonment on urban neighborhoods and the people who live in them. They reveal how current policies came to be as they are and explain the theories of punishment that guide imprisonment decisions. Finally, the contributors argue for the strategic importance of controls on punishment including imprisonment as a limit on government power; chart the rise and fall of efforts to improve conditions inside; analyze the theory and practice of prison release; and evaluate the tricky science of predicting and preventing recidivism. A definitive guide to imprisonment policies for the future, this volume convincingly demonstrates how we can prevent crime more effectively at lower economic and human cost.

Author : Prison Research Education Action Project
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Alternatives to imprisonment
ISBN : 0976707012

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Instead of Prisons by Prison Research Education Action Project Pdf

Originally published: Syracuse, N.Y.: Prison Research Education Action Project, 1976.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1608 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Courts
ISBN : CORNELL:31924071301190

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General Digest of the Decisions of the Principal Courts in the United States, England and Canada by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonathan Simon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : LAW
ISBN : 1620972549

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Mass Incarceration on Trial by Jonathan Simon Pdf

For nearly 40 years the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction of that number of inmates. Our prisons are not only vast and overcrowded, they are degrading. Mass Incarceration on Trial examines a series of landmark decisions about prison conditions that has opened an unexpected escape route from this trap of 'tough on crime' politics. This set of rulings points toward values that could restore legitimate order to American prisons and lead to the end of mass incarceration.

Author : National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on the Health of Select Populations,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Law and Justice,Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780309287685

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Health and Incarceration by National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on the Health of Select Populations,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Law and Justice,Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration Pdf

Over the past four decades, the rate of incarceration in the United States has skyrocketed to unprecedented heights, both historically and in comparison to that of other developed nations. At far higher rates than the general population, those in or entering U.S. jails and prisons are prone to many health problems. This is a problem not just for them, but also for the communities from which they come and to which, in nearly all cases, they will return. Health and Incarceration is the summary of a workshop jointly sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences(NAS) Committee on Law and Justice and the Institute of Medicine(IOM) Board on Health and Select Populations in December 2012. Academics, practitioners, state officials, and nongovernmental organization representatives from the fields of healthcare, prisoner advocacy, and corrections reviewed what is known about these health issues and what appear to be the best opportunities to improve healthcare for those who are now or will be incarcerated. The workshop was designed as a roundtable with brief presentations from 16 experts and time for group discussion. Health and Incarceration reviews what is known about the health of incarcerated individuals, the healthcare they receive, and effects of incarceration on public health. This report identifies opportunities to improve healthcare for these populations and provides a platform for visions of how the world of incarceration health can be a better place.