Sentencing

<p>This book examines the process and purpose of sentencing in the criminal justice system beyond the confines of its legalistic aspects.</p><p>Sentencing is the process that concludes any criminal trial that ends with the defendant being convicted and any hearing in which a defendant pleads guilty. Those convicted of crime have been subject to sentencing as the method of imposing a punishment for their offences since the earliest existence of anything we would recognise as a criminal justice system. Yet the rationale behind sentencing and the process by which it happens has long been viewed through a traditional lens. In contrast this book considers not just the process by which a Judge arrives at a numerical sentence of months in custody or the amount of a fine but the wider meanings and effects of sentencing as seen through the lens of various ideas of social justice.</p><p>The book will appeal to students academics and legal practitioners who wish to consider a different perspective on the well-known and well-researched but often shifting area of sentencing.</p>