Michael H Tonry
Biographic Data
| ID | 4492911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael H Tonry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael H |
| FAMILY NAME | Tonry |
| SIGNATURE | TONRY M H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Of One-Eyed and Toothless Miscreants: Making the Punishment Fit the Crime?
Sentencing Fragments: Penal Reform in America, 1975-2025
Almost everyone agrees - Right on Crime, the ACLU, Koch Industries, George Soros's Open Society Foundation, the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal - that America's current systems for sentencing criminal offenders are a shambles, with crazy quilts of incompatible and conflicting laws, policies, and practices in every state and the federal system. Almost everyone agrees that punishments are too severe, and too many …
The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Criminal Justice
The future of imprisonment
1. Has the Prison a Future PART I: HOW MUCH IMPRISONMENT IS TOO MUCH? 2. Crime, Law and the Community: Dynamics of Incarceration in New York City 3. Restoring Rationality in Punishment Policy PART II: GOING IN 4. Limiting Retributivism 5. Sentencing Reform through Sentencing Information Systems PART III: BEING THERE 6. Democracy and the Limits of Punishment: A Preface to Prisoner's Rights 7. Prison amid the Ruins of Prisoner's Rights PART IV: COM…
Penal Reform in Overcrowded Times
This volume gathers together a topical collection of articles on penal reform in the United States, Europe, Japan and other English-speaking countries. Unique and wide-ranging, the volume offers some of the broadest efforts to charaterise recent penal trends and analyse their causes and consequences. The articles, written by national and international authorities, originally appeared in the journal Overcrowded Times, and have been updated and pre…
Sentencing reform in overcrowded times: A comparative perspective
This volume brings together articles on sentencing reform in the United States, other English-speaking countries (Australia, Canada, England, Wales, New Zealand, South Africa), and Western Europe, by leading national and international authorities on sentencing policy, practices, and institutions. The articles, by leading experts, are short, timely, and readable, and originally appeared in the journal Overcrowded Times
Building a safer society: Strategic Approaches to Crime Prevention
Building a Safer Society transcends national and disciplinary boundaries to summarize what is known about different strategic approaches to crime prevention. Some strategies include preventing criminal potential in high-risk groups, changing social conditions that influence crime, and reducing opportunities for the occurrence of crime. The contributors explore various methods of developmental, community, and situational prevention, as well as tra…
Malign Neglect Race, Crime, And Punishment In America
Despite the perennial claims of politicians that our courts are coddling hardened criminals, the fact is that America already sends a higher proportion of its citizens to prison and for longer terms than any other western nation. To quote the Canadian House of Commons’s Committee on Justice, “If locking up those who violate the law contributed to safer societies, then the United States should be the safest country in the world.” Yet despite well-…
Communities and crime
Research on Sentencing: The Search for Reform, Vol. 1
Research on Sentencing: The Search for Reform, Vol. 1
Communities and crime
Building a safer society: Strategic Approaches to Crime Prevention
Building a Safer Society transcends national and disciplinary boundaries to summarize what is known about different strategic approaches to crime prevention. Some strategies include preventing criminal potential in high-risk groups, changing social conditions that influence crime, and reducing opportunities for the occurrence of crime. The contributors explore various methods of developmental, community, and situational prevention, as well as tra…
Malign Neglect Race, Crime, And Punishment In America
Despite the perennial claims of politicians that our courts are coddling hardened criminals, the fact is that America already sends a higher proportion of its citizens to prison and for longer terms than any other western nation. To quote the Canadian House of Commons’s Committee on Justice, “If locking up those who violate the law contributed to safer societies, then the United States should be the safest country in the world.” Yet despite well-…
Sentencing reform in overcrowded times: A comparative perspective
This volume brings together articles on sentencing reform in the United States, other English-speaking countries (Australia, Canada, England, Wales, New Zealand, South Africa), and Western Europe, by leading national and international authorities on sentencing policy, practices, and institutions. The articles, by leading experts, are short, timely, and readable, and originally appeared in the journal Overcrowded Times
Penal Reform in Overcrowded Times
This volume gathers together a topical collection of articles on penal reform in the United States, Europe, Japan and other English-speaking countries. Unique and wide-ranging, the volume offers some of the broadest efforts to charaterise recent penal trends and analyse their causes and consequences. The articles, written by national and international authorities, originally appeared in the journal Overcrowded Times, and have been updated and pre…
The future of imprisonment
1. Has the Prison a Future PART I: HOW MUCH IMPRISONMENT IS TOO MUCH? 2. Crime, Law and the Community: Dynamics of Incarceration in New York City 3. Restoring Rationality in Punishment Policy PART II: GOING IN 4. Limiting Retributivism 5. Sentencing Reform through Sentencing Information Systems PART III: BEING THERE 6. Democracy and the Limits of Punishment: A Preface to Prisoner's Rights 7. Prison amid the Ruins of Prisoner's Rights PART IV: COM…
The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Criminal Justice
Sentencing Fragments: Penal Reform in America, 1975-2025
Almost everyone agrees - Right on Crime, the ACLU, Koch Industries, George Soros's Open Society Foundation, the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal - that America's current systems for sentencing criminal offenders are a shambles, with crazy quilts of incompatible and conflicting laws, policies, and practices in every state and the federal system. Almost everyone agrees that punishments are too severe, and too many …
Of One-Eyed and Toothless Miscreants: Making the Punishment Fit the Crime?
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · Criminology (5 works) · united states (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Administration of Criminal justice (3 works) · Crime (3 works) · Penology (3 works) · Social Science (3 works)