Introduction: Time for a Paradigm Shift 1. Sentencing and Social Reality 2. Gender and Sentencing 3. Race and Access to Justice 4. Sentencing Impact and Governance 5. Evaluating Sentencing. Notes. References. Index
Biography
Ralph Henham is Professor of Criminal Justice at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University and a Visiting Professor in the School of Law, Politics and Sociology at the University of Sussex. Recent publications include Beyond Punishment: Achieving International Criminal Justice (2010, with Mark Findlay), and Sentencing and the Legitimacy of Trial Justice (2011). He is a co-editor of Ashgate’s series on International and Comparative Criminal Justice and an editorial board member of the International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice.
The punishment of citizens is practiced everywhere, but raises substantive normative questions about the justification for sentencing and its distribution. Sentencing provides a terrific exploration of all the major issues covering a wide range with clarity and insight that will benefit students. Ralph Henham offers a critical and fresh perspective on how we might better understand sentencing and how its practice might be improved. —Thom Brooks, Reader in Law, Durham University, Author of Punishment
