03270oam 2200505I 450 991051419430332120230621140223.01-943208-09-310.3998/mpub.10033584(CKB)5510000000006271(OCoLC)1011675106(MdBmJHUP)musev2_98628(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90787(MiU)0.3998/mpub.10033584(EXLCZ)99551000000000627120171116h20172017 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSentencing in time /Linda Ross MeyerAmherst, Massachusetts :Amherst College Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (1 online resource 110 pages) : illustrationsPublic works1-943208-08-5 Includes bibliographical references.The phenomenological fallacy: out of sight, out of time -- The cosmological fallacy: time is a thing with quantity -- Doing x amount of time for x amount of crime -- Is meaninglessness itself a kind of justified punishment? -- Bad time and good time -- Alternative: "serving" a sentence: sentencing as service -- Objections and responses -- Appendix: Supreme Court decisions of note: In re: Medley ; Ruiz v. Texas (dissent of Justice Breyer) ; Ewing v. California ; Brown v. Plata ; Pepper v. United States ; Miller v. Alabama.Exactly how is it we think the ends of justice are accomplished by means of sentencing a convict to a term in prison? How do we relate a quantitative measure of time--months and years--to the objectives of deterring crime, punishing wrongdoers, and accomplishing a quality of justice for those touched by a criminal act? Linda Meyer investigates these questions, examining the disconnect between our two basic modes of thinking about time--chronologically (seconds, minutes, hours), or phenomenologically (observing, taking note of, or being aware of the passing of time). Meyer asks whether--in overlooking the irreconcilability of these two modes of thinking about time--we are failing to accomplish anything near to the ends we believe the criminal justice system is designed to serve. Drawing on work in philosophy, legal theory, jurisprudence, and the history of penology, Meyer explores how, rather than condemning prisoners to an experience of time bereft of meaning, we might instead make the experience of incarceration constructively meaningful--and thus better aligned with social objectives of deterring crime, reforming offenders, and restoring justice.Public works (Amherst, Mass.)Sentences (Criminal procedure)United StatesPrison sentencesUnited StatesCriminal justice, Administration ofUnited StatesSentences (Criminal procedure)Prison sentencesCriminal justice, Administration ofMeyer Linda1962-1168721EYMEYMEYMBOOK9910514194303321Sentencing in Time2783208UNINA