Making sense of sentencing / / edited by Julian V. Roberts and David P. Cole

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456189103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1999; ©1999
• ISBN: 1-4426-7692-2; 9786612003165; 1-282-00316-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Collana: Heritage
• Disciplina: 345.71/0772
• Soggetti: Sentences (Criminal procedure) - Canada; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction to Sentencing and Parole -- 2. An Overview of Bill C-41 (The Sentencing Reform Act) -- 3. Legislating the Purpose and Principles of Sentencing -- 4. Conditional Sentences -- 5. Conditional Sentencing: Issues and Problems -- 6. Conditional Sentencing: Recent Developments -- 7. Sentencing Options in Canada -- 8. Sentencing Trends and Sentencing Disparity -- 9. Sentencing Mentally Ill Offenders -- 10. Sentencing Aboriginal Offenders: Some Critical Issues -- 11. Punishing Female Offenders and Perpetuating Gender Stereotypes -- 12. Sentencing Black Offenders in the Ontario Criminal Justice System -- 13. The Role of Victims in the Sentencing Process -- 14. Appellate Review of Sentencing Decisions -- 15. Sentencing and Conditional Release -- 16. Conditional Release from Imprisonment -- 17. Sentencing and Early Release Arrangements for Offenders Convicted of Murder -- 18. Sentencing Alternatives -- 19. Federal Sentencing in America -- 20. Sentencing Reform: Ten Years after the Canadian Sentencing Commission -- 21 Sentencing Reform: Where Are We Now? -- Reference
• Sommario/riassunto: On 3 September 1996, Bill C-41 was proclaimed in force, initiating one significant step in the reform of sentencing and parole in Canada. This is the first book that, in addition to providing an overview of the law, effectively presents a sociological analysis of the legal reforms and their ramifications in this controversial area.The commissioned essays in this collection cover such crucial issues as options and alternatives in sentencing, patterns revealed by recent statistics, sentencing of minority groups, Bill C-41 and its effects, conditional sentencing, and the structure and relationship between parole and sentencing are clearly presented. An introduction, editorial comments beginning each chapter, and a concluding chapter draw the essays together resulting in a timely, comprehensive and extremely readable work on this critical topic.Broad in scope and perspective, this major new socio-legal study of the law of sentencing will be illuminating to students, members of the legal profession, and the general reader.