Deserved criminal sentences : an overview / Andreas von Hirsch.
2017
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Title
Deserved criminal sentences : an overview / Andreas von Hirsch.
Published
Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2017.
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K5103 .V66 2017
ISBN
9781509902668 (hardback ; alk. paper)
150990266X (hardback ; alk. paper)
9781509902682 (ePDF)
9781509902675 (ePub)
1509902686
9781509902682
1509902678
9781509902675
150990266X (hardback ; alk. paper)
9781509902682 (ePDF)
9781509902675 (ePub)
1509902686
9781509902682
1509902678
9781509902675
Description
xi, 165 pages ; 23 cm
Other Standard Identifiers
99970814745
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(OCoLC)956947814
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-159) and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Von Hirsch, Andrew. Deserved criminal sentences. Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017 9781509902675 (DLC) 2016038127
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Table of Contents
Preface
v
Acknowledgements
vii
1.
Introduction: The Emergence of the Proportionate Sentence
1
1.1.
Origins of the Desert Model
1
1.2.
Proportionality-based Sentencing: The Example of Sweden's Sentencing Scheme
4
1.3.
Attractions of the Proportionate Sentence
7
1.4.
Prevention-based Sentencing as a Workable Alternative?
8
1.5.
Ethical Presuppositions of the Desert Rationale
11
1.6.
Topics Addressed in this Volume
13
2.
Sentence Proportionality Sketched Briefly
17
2.1.
Censure and Penal Desert
17
2.2.
Rationale for Proportionality
20
2.3.
Proportionality as `Limiting' or `Determining'?
21
2.4.
Gauging Crimes' Seriousness and Punishments' Severity
23
2.5.
Role of Previous Criminal Convictions
24
2.6.
Inclusion of Crime-control Aims?
25
2.7.
Desert and Increased Penal Severity?
27
3.
Why Should the Criminal Sanction Exist?
29
3.1.
Varieties of Desert Theories
29
3.2.
Censure-Based Justifications for Punishment
31
3.3.
Why the Censure in Punishment?
32
3.4.
Why the Hard Treatment in Punishment?
36
3.5.
Relation between the Two Elements
39
4.
Why Punish Proportionately?
45
4.1.
Beccaria and Bentham's Deterrence Argument
46
4.2.
Positive General Prevention: The Inhibition-reinforcement Argument
47
4.3.
Argument from Censure
49
4.4.
Censure Argument Stated More Fully
50
5.
Ordinal and Cardinal Proportionality
55
5.1.
Ordinal Proportionality
56
5.2.
Sub-requirements of Ordinal Proportionality: Parity and Rank-ordering
58
5.3.
How Much Does Ordinal Proportionality Constrain Reliance on Crime-prevention Concerns?
58
5.4.
Cardinal Magnitude and the Fixing of the Penalty System's Anchoring Points
59
5.5.
How Much Guidance Regarding Anchoring of the Penalty Structure?
60
6.
Seriousness, Severity and the Living-standard
63
6.1.
Gauging Crimes' Seriousness
63
6.2.
Gauging Punishments' Severity
67
7.
Role of Previous Convictions
71
7.1.
Explanations Directed to the Present Act
73
7.2.
Explanations Directed to the Criminal Career
74
7.3.
Alternative Account: `Tolerance' and the Prior Record
75
7.4.
Multiple Previous Offending?
79
7.5.
Institutional and Social Context
80
7.6.
Illustration: Sweden's Treatment of Reoffending
82
7.7.
Seriousness and Number of Previous Convictions
84
8.
Proportionate Non-custodial Sanctions
87
8.1.
Basic Elements of the Model
87
8.2.
Interchanges: Equivalent Penal Bite
89
8.3.
Back-up Sanctions for Breach of Conditions
93
9.
`Modified' Desert Model?
97
9.1.
Exceptional Departures
98
9.2.
`Range Models'
103
9.2a.
`Limiting Retributivism'
103
9.2b.
`Modified' Desert Model
104
10.
Politics of the Desert Model
107
10.1.
Desert Model's Political Pedigree
107
10.2.
Limiting Severity: Desert vs Penal Utilitarianism
111
10.3.
Proportionality and Increased Severity?
115
10.4.
`Law and Order' Strategies
118
10.5.
Arguments about `Underlying Ills'
122
10.6.
`Vacuousness' Argument
125
11.
Proportionate Sentences for Juveniles
127
11.1.
Introduction
127
11.2.
Culpability
129
11.2a.
Cognitive Factors
130
11.2b.
Volitional Controls
133
11.2c.
Youth `Discount' or Individual Assessment?
134
11.3.
Punitive Bite
135
11.4.
Special `Tolerance' for Juveniles?
137
Appendix: The Desert Model's Evolution---A Brief Chronology
143
Bibliography
151
Index
161