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Doing Justice, Preventing Crime

English

By (author): Michael Tonry

Punishment policies and practices in the United States today are unprincipled, chaotic, and much too often unjust. The financial costs are enormous. The moral cost is greater: countless individual injustices, mass incarceration, the world's highest imprisonment rate, extreme disparities, especially affecting members of racial and ethnic minority groups, high rates of wrongful conviction, assembly line case processing, and a general absence of respectful consideration of offenders' interests, circumstances, and needs. In Doing Justice, Preventing Crime, Michael Tonry lays normative and empirical foundations for building new, more just, and more effective systems of sentencing and punishment in the twenty-first century. The overriding goals are to treat people convicted of crimes justly, fairly, and even-handedly; to take sympathetic account of the circumstances of peoples' lives; and to punish no one more severely than he or she deserves. Drawing on philosophy and punishment theory, this book explains the structural changes needed to uphold the rule of law and its requirement that the human dignity of every person be respected. In clear and engaging prose, Michael Tonry surveys what is known about the deterrent, incapacitative, and rehabilitative effects of punishment, and explains what needs to be done to move from an ignoble present to a better future. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 476g
  • Dimensions: 236 x 160mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Aug 2020
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780195320503

About Michael Tonry

Michael Tonry is McKnight Presidential Professor of Criminal Law and Policy and Director of the Institute on Crime and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota. He has published a number of books and articles in the US and Europe and taught at the Universities of Cambridge Lausanne and Minnesota. He was Professor of Law and Public Policy and Director of the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University. Previous books on punishment theory and philosophy include Why Punish? How Much? (OUP 2011) Retributivism Has a Past. Has it a Future? (OUP 2011) and Of One-eyed and Toothless Miscreants: Making the Punishment Fit the Crime? (OUP 2020).

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