The "Desert" Model for Sentencing: Its Influence, Prospects, and Alternatives

Explores the choice of sentencing rationale that ought to follow as the influence of penal rehabilitation has diminished in sentencing theory, seeking to link that choice to the larger normative aspirations to be pursued for sentencing reform. Focus is on the proportionalist or "desert" mo...

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Arid zones
Case law
Censure
Corrective justice
Crime
Criminal justice
Criminal law
Criminal punishment
Criminal records
Criminal sentences
Criminal sentencing
Criminal sociology. Police. Delinquency. Deviance. Suicide
Criminals
Deviance
Europe
Evaluation
Fines & penalties
Government regulation
Hirsch, Julian
Imprisonment
Jurisdiction
Justice
Justice, Administration of
Laws, regulations and rules
Mandatory minimum sentences
Medical treatment
Negotiation
Politics
Principles
Prison sentences
Punishment
Rationality
Roberts, Anthony
Sanctions
Sentencing
Sentencing guidelines
Social research
Sociology
Sociology of law and criminology
Sociology of law and justice
States
Traditions
United States
United States of America
USA
von Hirsch, Andrew
What and How We Punish: Law, Justice, and Punishment
title The "Desert" Model for Sentencing: Its Influence, Prospects, and Alternatives
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