Punishing persistent offenders
Subtitle: exploring community and offender perspectives
By: Julian V. Roberts.
Series: Clarendon studies in criminology
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780199283897
Subjects: Recidivism -- Prevention.; Criminals -- Rehabilitation.; Punishment -- Public opinion.; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Public opinion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: Paying for the past : the recidivist sentencing premium; title: Reductivist sentencing perspectives and the role of previous convictions; title: Retributive approaches to previous convictions; title: The enhanced culpability model; title: Role of previous convictions : representative sentencing frameworks; title: The view from the dock : perceptions of sentenced offenders; title: Sentenced individuals' reactions to the recidivist sentencing premium; title: The intuitive sentencer : public attitudes and prior convictions; title: Explaining public attitudes : the intuitive sentencer and the intuitive psychologist; title: Reconceptualizing the recidivist sentencing premium.