Punishment and Politics - Evidence and Emulation in the Making of English Crime Control Policy

Informationen zum Autor Michael Tonry is Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Minnesota. Klappentext Labour has embarked upon a root-and-branch remaking of the criminal justice system in England and Wales! with a mass of new legislation and constant high profile for criminal justice issues. Zusammenfassung This provocative yet authoritative book seeks to expose and to unravel what has really driven the making of criminal justice policy in the UK. It will be essential reading for anybody interested in knowing what is going on in criminal justice, and why it is so central to political debate more generally. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Evidence 2. Rhetoric 3. English exceptionalism 4. Race 5. Sentencing 6. Violence 7. What's next?

Product details

• Authors: Michael Tonry, Tonry Michael
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2004
• EAN: 9781843920632
• ISBN: 978-1-84392-063-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / Jurisprudence, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Jurisprudence & general issues, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Jurisprudence and general issues