Introduction Sentencing and Corrections: Overlapping and …
Sentencing is a legal process where criminal sanctions are authorized and imposed in individual cases following criminal convictions, while corrections deals with the implementation, management, and evaluation of criminal sentences after they are handed down.
Identifying, Treating, and Reducing Risk for Offenders with Mental ...
Jul 27, 2024 · We conclude by summarizing implications of current research for smarter sentencing and correctional policies for this population, from assessment to problem solving over violations.
Risk Assessment | The Oxford Handbook of Sentencing and …
Apr 6, 2012 · In an indeterminate sentencing regime, risk assessment often plays a significant role at both the front and back ends of the process. The sentence range initially imposed by the sentencing body may be reduced or enhanced by perceptions of risk.
9 Restorative Justice as Evidence-Based Sentencing - Oxford …
Apr 6, 2012 · The operational impact of those developments on sentencing and corrections has been relatively marginal so far. Yet a growing body of systematic evidence has stockpiled ample fuel to power a restorative justice (RJ) movement, if …
The Psychological Effects of Imprisonment | The Oxford Handbook …
Sep 18, 2012 · Haney, Craig, ' The Psychological Effects of Imprisonment', in Joan Petersilia, and Kevin R. Reitz (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Sentencing and Corrections, Oxford Handbooks (2012; online edn, Oxford Academic, 18 Sept. 2012), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199730148.013.0024, accessed 12 Dec. 2024.
14 American Corrections: Reform Without Change - Oxford …
Recognition of these patterns is helpful to understanding the development of the correctional system or, as we argue, the too often adverse development characterized by “reform without change.” The patterns that are revealed in this correctional development are summarized below.
11 The “Traditional” Indeterminate Sentencing Model - Oxford …
As a matter of conventional understanding, indeterminate sentencing systems are those that empower a parole-release agency to rule on the actual lengths of prison terms (Frankel 1973, 86; Rothman 1980, 44; Wool and Stemen 2004, 2).
23 Female Offenders and Women in Prison - Oxford Academic
Apr 6, 2012 · This essay is an attempt to bring those issues to the discussion of sentencing and corrections by presenting the empirical data about the extent and nature of women’s involvement in illegal activity, by reviewing both the historical trends in imprisonment and contemporary issues affecting women in jails and prisons and, finally, by offering a ...
23 Mandatory Penalties - Oxford Academic
Mandatory sentencing laws for felonies take a number of forms. Typical laws specify minimum prison sentences for designated violent and drug crimes (e.g., minimum five years’ imprisonment for selling ten grams of crack cocaine).
Charging and Plea Bargaining as Forms of Sentencing Discretion
Apr 6, 2012 · This article shows how charging and plea bargaining can be used as forms of sentencing discretion. It first examines the claims that prosecutorial charging and plea bargaining discretion is a form of sentencing power, which appear …