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Title

  • Sentencing in time

Summary

  • "Exactly how is it we think the ends of justice are accomplished by means of sentencing a convict to a term in prison? How do we relate a quantitative measure of time--months and years--to the objectives of deterring crime, punishing wrongdoers, and accomplishing a quality of justice for those touched by a criminal act? Linda Meyer investigates these questions, examining the disconnect between our two basic modes of thinking about time--chronologically (seconds, minutes, hours), or phenomenologically (observing, taking note of, or being aware of the passing of time). Meyer asks whether--in overlooking the irreconcilability of these two modes of thinking about time--we are failing to accomplish anything near to the ends we believe the criminal justice system is designed to serve. Drawing on work in philosophy, legal theory, jurisprudence, and the history of penology, Meyer explores how, rather than condemning prisoners to an experience of time bereft of meaning, we might instead make the experience of incarceration constructively meaningful--and thus better aligned with social objectives of deterring crime, reforming offenders, and restoring justice."--Publisher.

Names

  • Meyer, Linda, 1962- author

Created / Published

  • Amherst, Massachusetts : Amherst College Press, [2017]

Contents

  • The phenomenological fallacy: out of sight, out of time -- The cosmological fallacy: time is a thing with quantity -- Doing x amount of time for x amount of crime -- Is meaninglessness itself a kind of justified punishment? -- Bad time and good time -- Alternative: "serving" a sentence: sentencing as service -- Objections and responses -- Appendix: Supreme Court decisions of note: In re: Medley ; Ruiz volume Texas (dissent of Justice Breyer) ; Ewing volume California ; Brown volume Plata ; Pepper volume United States ; Miller volume Alabama.

Headings

  • -  Criminal justice, Administration of--United States
  • -  Prison sentences--United States
  • -  Sentences (Criminal procedure)--United States
  • -  Criminal justice, Administration of
  • -  Prison sentences
  • -  Sentences (Criminal procedure)
  • -  United States

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (110 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KF9685

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019667286

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Meyer, Linda, Author. Sentencing in Time. [Amherst, Massachusetts: Amherst College Press, 2017] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019667286/.

APA citation style:

Meyer, L. (2017) Sentencing in Time. [Amherst, Massachusetts: Amherst College Press] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019667286/.

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Meyer, Linda, Author. Sentencing in Time. [Amherst, Massachusetts: Amherst College Press, 2017] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2019667286/>.