Title: Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries
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 onsentencing 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.
Subjects: Law, Nonfiction, Criminal Law, Sancties, Sentences (Criminal procedure), Criminaliteit, Sentencing, Peines, Sentences (Procédure pénale), Straftoemeting, LAW, Punishment, Straffen, Sanctions (law), Sentences (criminal procedure)