Sentencing In The Age Of Information

Author : Katja Franko Aas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135309763

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Sentencing in the Age of Information by Katja Franko Aas Pdf

How does the fact that we live in information societies reflect on the nature of penal discourse and practice? Applying media and communication studies to sentencing and penal culture, Kate Franko Aas offers a lucid and innovative account of how punishment is adjusting to a new cultural climate marked by growing demands for information processing, transparency and accountability. This significant book explores a number of recent penal developments, such as risk assessment instruments, sentencing guidelines and computerized sentencing information systems, and argues that they are instruments of justice with so-called Macintosh traits, offering pre-programmed answers and solutions. Franko Aas touches upon issues of decision-making at-a-distance, the exercise of discretion, databases, disembodiment and the changing nature of subjectivity. She explores information technology as a cultural environment with profound implications for the nature of penal knowledge, governance and identity constitution. Sentencing in the Age of Information is essential reading for scholars and students interested in sentencing, penal culture, criminology, sociology of law and media and communication studies. Joint winner of the 2006 Hart/Socio-Legal Studies Association Book Prize.

Author : Katja Franko Aas
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Criminal courts
ISBN : 9781904385387

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Sentencing in the Age of Information by Katja Franko Aas Pdf

Applying media and communication studies to sentencing and penal culture, Franko Aas offers a lucid and innovative account of how punishment is adjusting to a new cultural climate.

Author : Cyrus Tata
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030010607

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Sentencing: A Social Process by Cyrus Tata Pdf

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 : Marc Mauer,Ashley Nellis
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781620974100

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The Meaning of Life by Marc Mauer,Ashley Nellis Pdf

"I can think of no authors more qualified to research the complex impact of life sentences than Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis. They have the expertise to track down the information that all citizens need to know and the skills to translate that research into accessible and powerful prose." —Heather Ann Thompson, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Blood in the Water From the author of the classic Race to Incarcerate, a forceful and necessary argument for eliminating life sentences, including profiles of six people directly impacted by life sentences by formerly incarcerated author Kerry Myers Most Western democracies have few or no people serving life sentences, yet here in the United States more than 200,000 people are sentenced to such prison terms. Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis of The Sentencing Project argue that there is no practical or moral justification for a sentence longer than twenty years. Harsher sentences have been shown to have little effect on crime rates, since people "age out" of crime—meaning that we're spending a fortune on geriatric care for older prisoners who pose little threat to public safety. Extreme punishment for serious crime also has an inflationary effect on sentences across the spectrum, helping to account for severe mandatory minimums and other harsh punishments. A thoughtful and stirring call to action, The Meaning of Life also features moving profiles of a half dozen people affected by life sentences, written by former "lifer" and award-winning writer Kerry Myers. The book will tie in to a campaign spearheaded by The Sentencing Project and offers a much-needed road map to a more humane criminal justice system.

Author : Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics,Dianne Hendrick,Michael Martin,Peter Greenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Community-based corrections Canada Statistics
ISBN : 0662340809

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Conditional Sentencing in Canada [electronic Resource]: a Statistical Profile, 1997-2001 by Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics,Dianne Hendrick,Michael Martin,Peter Greenberg Pdf

The 'conditional sentence' was enacted in September 1996 as a new sentencing option for adult offenders. Under this new sanction, an offender could be ordered a term of imprisonment of less than two years to be served within the community. During the 2001 to 2002 period, the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics conducted a special study of conditional sentences in correctional services in order to examine the impact of this new sentence on the administration of sentencing in Canada and to explore its application through an examination of caseloads and case characteristics. This report uses data from that special study, as well as the Adult Correctional Services Survey, to profile conditional sentence caseloads and case characteristics (e.g., length of sentence, most serious offence, conditions ordered), and offender characteristics (e.g., age, sex, Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal), nationally, provincially and territorially for the period of 1997 to 2001. Data on conditional sentences are also compared with probation and incarceration. Additional information describing jurisdictional administrative policies and procedures governing conditional sentences is also provided. The correctional services data have been supplemented with court data on conditional sentences from three jurisdictions: Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario and Alberta.

Author : Canada. Department of Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Juvenile justice, Administration of
ISBN : OCLC:124085851

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The Youth Criminal Justice Act by Canada. Department of Justice Pdf

The Youth Criminal Justice Act replaces the Young Offenders Act to provide the legislative framework for a fairer & more effective youth justice system.

Author : United States Sentencing Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1988-10
Category : Sentences (Criminal procedure)
ISBN : MINN:31951D01984795V

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Guidelines Manual by United States Sentencing Commission Pdf

Author : Joan Petersilia,Kevin R. Reitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190241445

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The Oxford Handbook of Sentencing and Corrections by Joan Petersilia,Kevin R. Reitz Pdf

Originally published: 2012. First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback 2015.

Author : Allan Manson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Sentences (Criminal procedure)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062951723

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The Law of Sentencing by Allan Manson Pdf

The book includes a postscript on the Supreme Court of Canada decision in R v. Latimer."--Pub. desc.

Author : Shona Minson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030327385

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Maternal Sentencing and the Rights of the Child by Shona Minson Pdf

This book brings to life the experiences of children affected by maternal imprisonment, and provides unique, in-depth analysis of judicial thinking on this issue. It explores the experiences of children whose mothers are sentenced to imprisonment in England and Wales and contrasts their state-sanctioned separation from their mothers in the criminal courts (where the court may not even be aware of the existence of a child) to the state-sanctioned separation of children from their parents in the family courts, where the child has legal representation and their best interests are the court’s paramount consideration. Drawing on detailed empirical research with children, caregivers, and Crown Court judiciary, Maternal Sentencing and the Rights of the Child brings together relevant literature on law, criminology, and human rights to provide insight into the reasons for the differentiated treatment and its implications for children, their caregivers, and wider society.

Author : Antoinette Kavanaugh,Thomas Grisso
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190052812

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Evaluations for Sentencing of Juveniles in Criminal Court by Antoinette Kavanaugh,Thomas Grisso Pdf

Young people charged with serious offenses may be tried in criminal court. The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that, if convicted in criminal court, juveniles' sentencing must take into account their relative developmental immaturity compared to adults. Therefore, Judges and attorneys in these cases need information from forensic mental health examiners about a youth's degree of immaturity and its relevance for sentencing. This is the first book to provide forensicmental health examiners a legal and developmental foundation for these evaluations, as well as best practices for performing the evaluation and communicating it to the court.

Author : Bernard E. Harcourt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226315997

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Against Prediction by Bernard E. Harcourt Pdf

From random security checks at airports to the use of risk assessment in sentencing, actuarial methods are being used more than ever to determine whom law enforcement officials target and punish. And with the exception of racial profiling on our highways and streets, most people favor these methods because they believe they’re a more cost-effective way to fight crime. In Against Prediction, Bernard E. Harcourt challenges this growing reliance on actuarial methods. These prediction tools, he demonstrates, may in fact increase the overall amount of crime in society, depending on the relative responsiveness of the profiled populations to heightened security. They may also aggravate the difficulties that minorities already have obtaining work, education, and a better quality of life—thus perpetuating the pattern of criminal behavior. Ultimately, Harcourt shows how the perceived success of actuarial methods has begun to distort our very conception of just punishment and to obscure alternate visions of social order. In place of the actuarial, he proposes instead a turn to randomization in punishment and policing. The presumption, Harcourt concludes, should be against prediction.

Author : Katherine B Forrest
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789811232749

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When Machines Can Be Judge, Jury, And Executioner: Justice In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence by Katherine B Forrest Pdf

'Is it fair for a judge to increase a defendant's prison time on the basis of an algorithmic score that predicts the likelihood that he will commit future crimes? Many states now say yes, even when the algorithms they use for this purpose have a high error rate, a secret design, and a demonstratable racial bias. The former federal judge Katherine Forrest, in her short but incisive When Machines Can Be Judge, Jury, and Executioner, says this is both unfair and irrational ...' See full reviewJed S RakoffUnited States District Judge for the Southern District of New YorkNew York Review of Books This book explores justice in the age of artificial intelligence. It argues that current AI tools used in connection with liberty decisions are based on utilitarian frameworks of justice and inconsistent with individual fairness reflected in the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence. It uses AI risk assessment tools and lethal autonomous weapons as examples of how AI influences liberty decisions. The algorithmic design of AI risk assessment tools can and does embed human biases. Designers and users of these AI tools have allowed some degree of compromise to exist between accuracy and individual fairness.Written by a former federal judge who lectures widely and frequently on AI and the justice system, this book is the first comprehensive presentation of the theoretical framework of AI tools in the criminal justice system and lethal autonomous weapons utilized in decision-making. The book then provides a comprehensive explanation as to why, tracing the evolution of the debate regarding racial and other biases embedded in such tools. No other book delves as comprehensively into the theory and practice of AI risk assessment tools.

Author : Beth M. Huebner,Natasha A. Frost
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429881466

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Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions by Beth M. Huebner,Natasha A. Frost Pdf

Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions, the third volume in the Routledge ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Series, includes contemporary essays on the consequences of punishment during an era of mass incarceration. The Handbook Series offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and corrections. In that spirit, the editors gathered contributions that summarize what is known in each topical area and also identify emerging theoretical, empirical, and policy work. The book is grounded in the current knowledge about the specific topics, but also includes new, synthesizing material that reflects the knowledge of the leading minds in the field. Following an editors’ introduction, the volume is divided into four sections. First, two contributions situate and contextualize the volume by providing insight into the growth of mass punishment over the past three decades and an overview of the broad consequences of punishment decisions. The overviews are then followed by a section exploring the broader societal impacts of punishment on housing, employment, family relationships, and health and well-being. The third section centers on special populations and examines the unique effects of punishment for juveniles, immigrants, and individuals convicted of sexual or drug-related offenses. The fourth section focuses on institutional implications with contributions on jails, community corrections, and institutional corrections.

Author : Arie Freiberg,Karen Gelb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317821847

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Penal Populism, Sentencing Councils and Sentencing Policy by Arie Freiberg,Karen Gelb Pdf

Public outcries and political platforms based on misinformation and misconceptions about the criminal justice system and current sentencing practice occur all too often in democratic societies. Penal Populism, Sentencing Councils and Sentencing Policy attempts to address this problem by bringing together important contributions from a number of distinguished experts in the field. Penal Populism presents theoretical perspectives on the role of the public in the development of sentencing policy. It places particular emphasis on the emerging role of sentencing commissions, advisory councils or panels in a number of English speaking countries: Australia, New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom, Scotland and South Africa. The book explains, expands and develops the existing literature that looks at public attitudes to justice and the role that the 'public' can play in influencing policy. Written in a scholarly yet accessible style, Penal Populism asks the critical questions: should 'public opinion', or preferably, 'public judgment' be relevant to court decision-making, to institutional decision-making and to the political process? And if so, how?