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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Deserved Criminal Sentences_ 2017 by Andreas von Hirsch
This book provides an accessible and systematic restatement of the desert model for criminal sentencing by one of its leading academic exponents. The desert model emphasises the degree of seriousness of the offenders crime in deciding the severity of his punishment and has become increasingly influential in recent penal practice and scholarly debate. It explains why sentences should be based principally on crime-seriousness and addresses among other topics how a desert-based penalty scheme can be constructed; how to gauge punishments seriousness and penalties severity; what weight should be given to an offenders previous convictions; how non-custodial sentences should be scaled; and what leeway there might be for taking other factors into account such as an offenders need for treatment. The volume will be of interest to all those working in penal theory and practice criminal sentencing and the criminal law more generally.