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How Do Judges Decide?
The Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment
Second Edition
- Cassia Spohn - Arizona State University, USA
February 2009 | 376 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
How are sentences for Federal, State, and Local crimes determined in the United States? Is this process fairly and justly applied to all concerned? How have reforms affected the process over the last 25 years? This text for advanced undergraduate students in criminal justice programs seeks to answer these questions.
CHAPTER 1: THE GOALS OF SENTENCING
CHAPTER TWO: THE SENTENCING PROCESS
CHAPTER 3: HOW DO JUDGES DECIDE?
CHAPTER 4: SENTENCING DISPARITY AND DISCRIMINATION: A FOCUS ON GENDER
CHAPTER 5: SENTENCING DISPARITY AND DISCRIMINATION: A FOCUS ON RACE/ETHNICITY
CHAPTER 6: THE SENTENCING REFORM MOVEMENT
CHAPTER 7: THE IMPACT OF SENTENCING REFORMS
"It is the most comprehensive analysis of sentencing practices in the United States in general, and of how judges decide in particular. It provides ample statistics of the realities of punishment and provides readers with the conclusions from several decades of research investigating judicial discretion."
University of Texas at San Antonio
Sample Materials & Chapters
Chapter 4 - Sentencing Disparity and Discrimination
Chapter 6 - The Sentencing Reform Movement
