04140cam a2200553Ki 4500 ocn927441645 OCoLC 20221114174825.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 151104s2016 nyua ob 001 0 eng d 9780190204693 electronic bk. 0190204699 electronic bk. 9780190204686 0190204680 40025574526 1088095 (OCoLC)927441645 (OCoLC)936290331 (OCoLC)959423406 (OCoLC)962890109 N$T eng rda pn N$T IDEBK YDXCP CDX EBLCP NAM YDX n-us--- MAIN HV9471 .T653 2016 SOC 030000 bisacsh 365/.70973 23 Tonry, Michael H. author Sentencing fragments : penal reform in America, 1975-2025 / Michael Tonry. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016] 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : illustrations ; text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Studies in Crime and Public Policy Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-282) and index. Sentencing Matters -- Sentencing Fragments -- Federal Sentencing -- Sentencing Theories -- Sentencing Principles -- Sentencing Futures. Almost everyone agrees--Right on Crime, the ACLU, Koch Industries, George Soros's Open Society Foundation, the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal--that America's current systems for sentencing criminal offenders are a shambles, with crazy quilts of incompatible and conflicting laws, policies, and practices in every state and the federal system. Most everyone agrees that punishments are too severe, and too many people are in prison. However, the kinds of major changes required to undo mass incarceration and rebuild American sentencing are simply not happening. Despite well-intentioned rhetoric and media coverage, there has been very little meaningful change. In Sentencing Fragments, Michael Tonry explains what needs to be done to rebuild just systems of sentencing and punishment, and how to do it. This book tells the story of sentencing policy changes since 1975, examines research findings concerning their effects, and explains what does and does not work. Beyond calling attention to the devastating effects on the lives of the poor and disadvantaged and the latest empirical evidence, Tonry identifies the common moral theories behind criminal sentencing--as well as their larger assumptions about human nature--and discusses the ways in which different theories have bred very different sentencing policies. Sentencing Fragments concludes with a set of proposals for creating better policies and practices for the future, calling for American legislators and politicians to remake sentencing into the humane and just process that it always should have been. In lucid and engaging prose, Michael Tonry reveals the historical foundation for the current state of the American criminal justice system, while simultaneously offering a game plan for long overdue reform. Print version record. Master record variable field(s) change: 050, 072 Corrections United States. Prison sentences United States. Imprisonment United States. Criminal justice, Administration of United States. Electronic books. Electronic books. Print version: Tonry, Michael H. Sentencing fragments 9780190204686 (DLC) 2015019053 (OCoLC)910009392 Studies in crime and public policy. https://login.ezproxy.pucpr.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1088095 Acceso Remoto EBSCOhost https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1088095 Acceso en el Campus PUCPR lcc 7 297520 297520 0 0 ddc 0 0 10 10 45 2021-12-20 0 365/.70973 ocn927441645 2021-12-20 00:00:00 2021-12-20 7 0 0 lcc 0 0 12 12 45 2022-11-14 0 HV9471 .T653 2016 50000003290805 2022-11-14 00:00:00 Ebook c. 1 2022-11-14 7