Determinate Sentencing - The Promise and the Reality of Retributive Justice

This book discusses in depth the rise and fall of the determinate ideal, once heralded as a replacement to the old order of criminal justice. Using new materials and combining political, empirical, and theoretical perspectives, Griset examines the attempt in New York State to establish determinate sentencing - "punishment for its own sake" - to replace the existing policy of rehabilitation. In portraying New York's experience against the backdrop of a national reform agenda, she analyzes the development and ultimate failure of a major social movement.

About the author

Pamala L. Griset is Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services in Albany.

Product details

• Authors: Pamala L Griset, Pamala L. Griset
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.07.1991
• EAN: 9780791405352
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0535-2
• No. of pages: 237
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 336 g
• Series: Suny Series, Women Writers in; Suny Critical Issues in Crimin
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology