LAW667A

019453

This class examines the principles and practices of sentencing. Any brief study of sentencing can only hint at the rich and complex field that has emerged indeed, that has been created, in the past twenty years. While sentencing as an aspect of the legal process has been around for several thousand years, sentencing as a distinct field of study and practice is quite a recent event. Sentencing reform movements revealed a gap in law, a lawlessness in many of the justice systems in the U.S. for most of the 20th century. But what has filled that gap in many systems (sentencing guidelines) is one of the most controversial law reform projects of our era.

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