Sentencing in Time /
"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...
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Amherst, Massachusetts :
Amherst College Press,
[2017]
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Sommario:
- 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.