num_pages: 456
description: This collection of original essays surveys the evolution of sentencing policies and practices in Western countries over the past twenty-five years. Contributors address plea-bargaining, community service, electronic monitoring, standards of use of incarceration, and legal perspectives on sentencing policy developments, among other topics. Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries provides a range of scholars and students excellent cross-national knowledge of sentencing laws and practices, when and why they have changed over time, and with what effects.
language: English
title: Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries
titlecomplete: Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
publisher: Oxford University Press