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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195071387
ISBN-13
9780195071382
eBay Product ID (ePID)
51458
Product Key Features
Book Title
Between Prison and Probation : Intermediate Punishments in a RATIONAL Sentencing System
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1991
Topic
Penology, Criminal Procedure, Criminology, Criminal Law / Sentencing
Illustrator
Yes
Features
Reprint
Genre
Law, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
9.9 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
"The book offers a detailed and logically consistent plea for rational sentencing to intermediate punishments."--Charles F. Hanna, Duquesne University, "This is an insightful book that exposes the paradoxes of our currentpunishment strategies in the U.S. It also offes an introduction to ongoingalternatives that have yet to be adequately studied. The students find thearguements engaging and balanced."-- Michael Polokowski, Univ. of Arizona, "The book offers a detailed and logically consistent plea for rationalsentencing to intermediate punishments."--Charles F. Hanna, DuquesneUniversity, "Excellent....Accurate and informative."--John McLaren, Southwest Texas State University"Well done, timely, provides insight and direction to the need to develop policy and sentencing statements for where and how intermediate sanctions fit."--Richard J. Billak, Youngstown State University"Excellent approach. Looks at an area in the Court-Corrections process where there are options not examined before, and bridges the gap between weak intervention (street) and too strong intervention (prison)."--Vincent J. Hoffman, Michigan State Univ."An excellent job in putting the issue in a new light. They present a compelling arguement that we should not any longer refer to these developments as alternatives to prison but as sentences in their own right. I particularly like their treatment of just deserts."--Dennis Palumbo, Arizona State Univ."This is an insightful book that exposes the paradoxes of our current punishment strategies in the U.S. It also offes an introduction to ongoing alternatives that have yet to be adequately studied. The students find the arguements engaging and balanced."-- Michael Polokowski, Univ. of Arizona"Morris and Tonry offer us a new strategy to deal with our huge offender population. Between Prison and Probation is a book we should ponder, debate, and put to trial"--Bert Useem, Chicago Tribune"Earnest and exhaustively documented....The authors make a compelling case that far greater use can and should be made of such measures as fines and community service. Policymakers, legislators, civic leaders, and ordinary citizens fed up with the present state of the judicial system would do well to consult this most lucid study"--ABA Journal"An important addition to the conservative criminological literature of recent years, and will undoubtedly be widely discussed and reviewed for the next few years"--Library Journal"The book offers a detailed and logically consistent plea for rational sentencing to intermediate punishments."--Charles F. Hanna, Duquesne University"A sophisticated and imaginative plea for establishing a range of alternatives to prison....We should be considering alternatives to incarceration of the kind recommended by Norval Morris and Michael Tonry."--The New York Review of Books"Contains an excellent discussion of the failure of incarceration and probation, and proposes good suggestions for the future of the correctional system."--Christina Polsenberg, Michigan State University, "An excellent job in putting the issue in a new light. They present a compelling arguement that we should not any longer refer to these developments as alternatives to prison but as sentences in their own right. I particularly like their treatment of just deserts."--Dennis Palumbo, ArizonaState Univ., "An excellent job in putting the issue in a new light. They present acompelling arguement that we should not any longer refer to these developmentsas alternatives to prison but as sentences in their own right. I particularlylike their treatment of just deserts."--Dennis Palumbo, Arizona StateUniv., "Morris and Tonry offer us a new strategy to deal with our huge offenderpopulation. Between Prison and Probation is a book we should ponder, debate, andput to trial"--Bert Useem, Chicago Tribune, "A sophisticated and imaginative plea for establishing a range of alternatives to prison....We should be considering alternatives to incarceration of the kind recommended by Norval Morris and Michael Tonry."--The New York Review of Books, "Earnest and exhaustively documented....The authors make a compelling case that far greater use can and should be made of such measures as fines and community service. Policymakers, legislators, civic leaders, and ordinary citizens fed up with the present state of the judicial system would dowell to consult this most lucid study"--ABA Journal, "Excellent approach. Looks at an area in the Court-Corrections process where there are options not examined before, and bridges the gap between weak intervention (street) and too strong intervention (prison)."--Vincent J. Hoffman, Michigan State Univ., "Morris and Tonry offer us a new strategy to deal with our huge offender population. Between Prison and Probation is a book we should ponder, debate, and put to trial"--Bert Useem, Chicago Tribune, "An important addition to the conservative criminological literature ofrecent years, and will undoubtedly be widely discussed and reviewed for the nextfew years"--Library Journal, "This is an insightful book that exposes the paradoxes of our current punishment strategies in the U.S. It also offes an introduction to ongoing alternatives that have yet to be adequately studied. The students find the arguements engaging and balanced."-- Michael Polokowski, Univ. ofArizona, "A sophisticated and imaginative plea for establishing a range ofalternatives to prison....We should be considering alternatives to incarcerationof the kind recommended by Norval Morris and Michael Tonry."--The New YorkReview of Books, "An important addition to the conservative criminological literature of recent years, and will undoubtedly be widely discussed and reviewed for the next few years"--Library Journal, "Well done, timely, provides insight and direction to the need to develop policy and sentencing statements for where and how intermediate sanctions fit."--Richard J. Billak, Youngstown State University, "Well done, timely, provides insight and direction to the need to developpolicy and sentencing statements for where and how intermediate sanctionsfit."--Richard J. Billak, Youngstown State University
Dewey Decimal
364.6/5/0973
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
In this work two leading American criminologists argue that fundamental sentencing reforms are needed before the US corrections system can contend with an escalating crime rate. They recommend the adoption of intermediate punishments - community-based sanctions of increasing severity - which can fill the gap between costly and punitive incarceration currently reserved for a minority of convicted offenders and parole served by the majority of offenders. The authors first analyse the evolution of sentencing in America and consider why intermediate punishments successfully applied in other countries have failed in the US. The authors examine a range of intermediate punishments such as intensive probation, fines, community service orders, and drug treatment programmes, as well as the types of criminals they are applicable for, their enforceability and effectiveness, and the major objections to their use., Across the country prisons are jammed to capacity and, in extreme cases, barges and mobile homes are used to stem the overflow. Probation officers in some cities have caseloads of 200 and more--hardly a manageable number of offenders to track and supervise. And with about one million people in prison and jail, and two and a half million on probation, it is clear we are experiencing a crisis in our penal system. In Between Prison and Probation , Norval Morris and Michael Tonry, two of the nation's leading criminologists, offer an important and timely strategy for alleviating these problems. They argue that our overwhelmed corrections system cannot cope with the flow of convicted offenders because the two extremes of punishment--imprisonment and probation--are both used excessively, with a near-vacuum of useful punishments in between. Morris and Tonry propose instead a comprehensive program that relies on a range of punishment including fines and other financial sanctions, community service, house arrest, intensive probation, closely supervised treatment programs for drugs, alcohol and mental illness, and electronic monitoring of movement. Used in rational combinations, these "intermediate" punishments would better serve the community than our present polarized choice. Serious consideration of these punishments has been hindered by the widespread perception that they are therapeutic rather than punitive. The reality, however, Morris and Tonry argue, "is that the American criminal justice system is both too severe and too lenient--almost randomly." Systematically implemented and rigorously enforced, intermediate punishments can "better and more economically serve the community, the victim, and the criminal than the prison terms and probation orders they supplant." Between Prison and Probation goes beyond mere advocacy of an increasing use of intermediate punishments; the book also addresses the difficult task of fitting these punishments into a comprehensive, fair and community-protective sentencing system., Across the country prisons are jammed to capacity, and in extreme cases, barges and mobile homes are used to stem the overflow. Probation officers in some cities have caseloads of 200 and more--hardly a manageable number of offenders to track and supervise. And with about one million people in prison and jail, and two and a half million on probation, it is clear our penal system is in crisis. In Between Prison and Probation, Norval Morris andMichael Tonry, two of the nation's leading criminologists, offer an important and timely strategy for alleviating these problems. Our corrections system cannot cope with the overwhelming number of offenders,they argue, because the two extremes of punishment it metes out--prison and probation--are both used excessively, with a near-vacuum of useful punishments in between. Morris and Tonry propose instead a comprehensive program that relies on a range of punishments, including fines, community service, and house arrest. Between Prison and Probation goes beyond mere advocacy to address the difficult task of fitting intermediate punishments into a comprehensive, fair andcommunity-protective sentencing system., Across the country prisons are jammed to capacity and, in extreme cases, barges and mobile homes are used to stem the overflow. Probation officers in some cities have caseloads of 200 and more--hardly a manageable number of offenders to track and supervise. And with about one million people in prison and jail, and two and a half million on probation, it is clear we are experiencing a crisis in our penal system. In Between Prison and Probation, Norval Morris and Michael Tonry, two of the nation's leading criminologists, offer an important and timely strategy for alleviating these problems. They argue that our overwhelmed corrections system cannot cope with the flow of convicted offenders because the two extremes of punishment--imprisonment and probation--are both used excessively, with a near-vacuum of useful punishments in between. Morris and Tonry propose instead a comprehensive program that relies on a range of punishment including fines and other financial sanctions, community service, house arrest, intensive probation, closely supervised treatment programs for drugs, alcohol and mental illness, and electronic monitoring of movement. Used in rational combinations, these "intermediate" punishments would better serve the community than our present polarized choice. Serious consideration of these punishments has been hindered by the widespread perception that they are therapeutic rather than punitive. The reality, however, Morris and Tonry argue, "is that the American criminal justice system is both too severe and too lenient--almost randomly." Systematically implemented and rigorously enforced, intermediate punishments can "better and more economically serve the community, the victim, and the criminal than the prison terms and probation orders they supplant." Between Prison and Probation goes beyond mere advocacy of an increasing use of intermediate punishments; the book also addresses the difficult task of fitting these punishments into a comprehensive, fair and community-protective sentencing system.
LC Classification Number
HV8708
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