Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Sentencing Matters
Chapter 2. Sentencing Fragments
Chapter 3. Federal Sentencing
Chapter 4. Sentencing Theories
Chapter 5. Sentencing Principles
Chapter 6. Reinventing Sentencing
References
Index
Michael Tonry is the McKnight Presidential Professor of Criminal
Law and Policy at the University of Minnesota, and a Scientific
Member of the Max Planck Institute on Comparative and International
Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany. Previously he was director of
the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University. He is a
visiting professor of law and criminology at the University of
Lausanne, Switzerland, and a senior fellow in the Netherlands
Institute for the
Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Free University Amsterdam.
Tonry is the author or editor of numerous books on criminal
justice, race and crime, and sentencing, including Thinking about
Crime and
Punishing Race.
"Michael Tonry offers a brilliant critique of U.S. sentencing. He
cautions that current strategies to reduce mass incarceration-such
as lowering sentences for nonviolent offenders or focusing on
short-term savings-miss the mark and will backfire. The problems
are far more foundational. Sentencing Fragments, blending elegantly
narrated history, acute analysis, and comprehensive empirical work,
calls for massive legislative and institutional change. It
is a must read for anyone interested in understanding American
sentencing and in reversing America's experiment in mass
incarceration." -Joan Petersilia and Robert Weisberg, Co-directors,
Stanford University
Criminal Justice Center
"Sentencing Fragments offers a compelling historical overview of
sentencing policy in America during the last several decades. A
leading researcher in both the U.S and Europe, Tonry is uniquely
positioned to provide transatlantic context which helps explain why
incarceration rose exponentially in the U.S. but not in Europe. He
presents invaluable insights into how the U.S. arrived at this
point, and offers provocative suggestions for reducing
incarceration in the future." -Marc A. Levin, Policy Director of
Right on Crime, and Director of the Texas Public Policy
Foundation's Center for Effective Justice
"American political leaders, liberal and conservative alike, agree
that American sentencing is deeply unjust and that mass
incarceration must be reduced. Voters in several states have
enacted sweeping reforms, yet the scope of legislative change has
been limited. Solving the crisis of mass incarceration will require
our elected leaders to fundamentally recast punitive laws and
rebuild sentencing systems from the ground up. Michael Tonry's
compelling
Sentencing Fragments spells out precisely what needs to be done,
why, and how." -Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director, American
Civil Liberties Union
"Starting from the premise that 'American sentencing is a disaster
- unjust, unprincipled, arbitrary, overly severe, and absurdly
expensive', Michael Tonry addresses the issues with a clear-eyed
expertise and proposes reforms that are to the point, principled
and practical."--David Garland, The Times Literary Supplement
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