This collection of original essays surveys the evolution of sentencing policies and practices in Western countries over the past twenty-five years. Contributors

This collection of original essays surveys the evolution of sentencing policies and practices in Western countries over the past twenty-five years. Contributors

Introduces the reader to the basic principles central to understanding alternatives to imprisonment as well as descriptions of promising practices implemented t

The Labour government has embarked upon a root-and-branch remaking of the criminal justice system in England and Wales, with a mass of new legislation and const

Using evidence and arguments from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Morris B. Hoffman describes how the judge and jury system evolved.