Sentencing and Punishment

Fully reworked, restructured, and updated, and incorporating changes following the 2019 general election; this fifth edition is the essential guide for anyone studying sentencing and punishment as part of a law or criminology course.

List of contents

• Part I: Sentencing Principles, Policies and Problems


• 1: Developing penal policy


• 2: Structuring sentencing


• 3: Determining 'just deserts'


• 4: Utility and deterrence


• 5: Risk and danger


• 6: Instead of punishment? Restorative justice, child welfare, and medical treatment


• 7: Impact on victims and offenders


• Part II: Punishing Offenders


• 8: Justice in the modern prison


• 9: Experiencing imprisonment


• 10: Punishment and rehabilitation in the community


• 11: Court orders for young offenders


• 12: Concluding remarks

About the author

Susan Easton is Emeritus Professor of Law at Brunel Law School, a barrister, and founding editor of the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law. She has previously lectured at both the University of Sussex and the University of Sheffield, as well as tutoring in UK prisons. She has a particular research interest in prisoners' rights and the experience of imprisonment.

Christine Piper is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Emeritus Professor of Law at Brunel Law School, and a member of the editorial board of Child and Family Law Quarterly. She has taught in secondary schools in both Nigeria and the UK and is interested in youth justice and sentencing and child and family law.

Summary

Fully reworked, restructured, and updated, and incorporating changes following the 2019 general election; this fifth edition is the essential guide for anyone studying sentencing and punishment as part of a law or criminology course.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Easton, Susan (Emeritus Professor of Law Easton, Christine Piper, Christine (Emeritus Professor Piper
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.11.2022
• EAN: 9780192863300
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286330-0
• No. of pages: 592
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; England, Wales, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, LAW / Criminal Law / Sentencing, Legal aspects of criminology, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Sentencing & punishment, Sentencing and punishment, Criminology: legal aspects, Wales / Cymru