Past or future crimes : deservedness and dangerousness in the sentencing of criminals /
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
©1985.
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| Series: | Crime, law, and deviance series
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: The issues in perspective
- 1. Evolution of the debate
- 2. Sentencing guidelines
- Part II: The conception of desert
- 3. Why punish proportionately?
- 4. Proportionality: determining or limiting?
- 5. Why punish at all?
- Part III: How much punishment is deserved?
- 6. Gauging the seriousness of crimes
- 7. Previous convictions
- 8. Anchoring the penalty scale
- Part IV: Selective incapacitation
- 9. Predictive efficacy
- 10. Impact on crime rates and prison populations
- 11. Ethical problems: the "no conflict" thesis
- 12. Prediction within broad desert limits?
- Part V: Synthesizing past and future
- 13. Categorial incapacitation
- 14. Strategies for synthesis
- 15. Concluding observations
- Appendixes: 1. The question of false positives
- 2. A note on Minnesota's sentencing guidelines.