Sentencing for Multiple Crimes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20004215 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Jan de Keijser, Julian V Roberts, Jesper Ryberg (0000-0003-2723-1979) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-19 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Sentencing Multiple Crimes (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780190607609.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2905990204 |
| ISBN | 9780190607609 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Most people assume that criminal offenders have only been convicted of a single crime. However, in reality almost half of offenders stand to be sentenced for more than one crime. The high proportion of multiple-crime offenders poses a number of practical and theoretical challenges for the criminal justice system. For instance, how should courts punish multiple offenders relative to individuals who have been sentenced for a single crime? Should a court simply determine a specific sentence for each individual crime and then impose the total sentences on the offender? If this happens, an offender convicted of a large number of crimes of low seriousness will receive a sentence comparable to that which would be appropriate to a single very serious crime. Such an outcome would violate the principle of ordinal proportionality in sentencing. This book discusses a range of questions relating to multiple crime cases from the perspective of several legal theories. It considers questions such as the overall proportionality of the crimes committed, the temporal span between the crimes, and the relationship between theories about the punitive treatment of recidivists and multiple offenders. Contributors representing six different countries and the fields of legal theory, philosophy, and psychology offer their perspectives to the volume, broadening the scope beyond that of the United States. The chapters in this volume therefore contribute to international and domestic efforts to promote a more principled approach to sentencing offenders convicted of multiple offences
Criminal justice · Criminology · Political science · Proportionality (law) · Punitive damages · Scope (computer science) · Sentence · Seriousness · Computer Science · Criminal Law and Policy · Law · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |