Sentencing Into the Twenty-First Century: Sentence Enhancement and Life Without Parole (From Visions for Change: Crime and Justice in the Twenty-First Century, P 237-254, Roslyn Muraskin and Albert R. Roberts, eds. - see NCJ-158451)

• NCJ Number: 158467
• Author(s): E Morgan-Sharp; R T Sigler
• Date Published: 1996
• Length: 18 pages
• Sale Source: Prentice-Hall, Inc
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This chapter discusses cycles in the American orientation toward the sentencing of criminal offenders, and predicts that the current tendency to emphasize punishment or retribution will shift in the next few decades toward a philosophy of treatment or rehabilitation.

Abstract

Punishment-oriented periods are characterized by the passage of legislation which focuses on the offense rather than the offender, increases penalties, and reduces variability in sentencing. A treatment-oriented period in criminal justice would see new statutes reducing or eliminating punitive statutes such as habitual offender laws, sentence enhancement, and determinate sentencing, and stressing instead community-based alternatives to incarceration. 71 references