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" Between prison and probation : "
Norval Morris, Michael Tonry.
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959197
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b713567
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Morris, Norval,1923-2004.
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Between prison and probation : : intermediate punishments in a rational sentencing system /\ Norval Morris, Michael Tonry.
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1990.
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283 pages :: illustrations ;; 22 cm
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019506108X
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: 6610525943
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: 9780195061086
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: 9786610525942
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0195071387
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-271) and index.
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Introduction -- Toward a comprehensive punishment system -- Interchangeability of punishments in practice -- Interchangeability of punishments in principle -- Fines -- Community service orders -- Control and treatment in the community -- The political economy of implementation.
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In Between Prison and Probation, Norval Morris and Michael Tonry, two of the nation's leading criminologists, offer an important and timely strategy for alleviating these problems. They argue that our overwhelmed corrections system cannot cope with the flow of convicted offenders because the two extremes of punishment--imprisonment and probation--are both used excessively, with a near-vacuum of useful punishments in between. Morris and Tonry propose instead a comprehensive program that relies on a range of punishment including fines and other financial sanctions, community service, house arrest, intensive probation, closely supervised treatment programs for drugs, alcohol and mental illness, and electronic monitoring of movement. Used in rational combinations, these "intermediate" punishments would better serve the community than our present polarised choice. Serious consideration of these punishments has been hindered by the widespread perception that they are therapeutic rather than punitive. The reality, however, Morris and Tonry argue, "is that the American criminal justice system is both too severe and too lenient--almost randomly." Systematically implemented and rigorously enforced, intermediate punishments can "better and more economically serve the community, the victim, and the criminal than the prison terms and probation orders they supplant." Between Prison and Probation goes beyond mere advocacy of an increasing use of interdediate punishments; the book also addresses the difficult task of fitting these punishments into a comprehensive, fair and community-protective sentencing system.
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Corrections-- United States.
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Sentences (Criminal procedure)-- United States.
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Sentences (Procédure pénale)-- États-Unis.
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Services correctionnels-- États-Unis.
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Corrections.
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Prisões.
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Reabilitação criminal.
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Sentences (Criminal procedure)
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Strafrecht
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Strafvollzug
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Wörterbuch
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Wörterbuch.
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Straffen.
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Voorwaardelijke veroordeling.
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United States.
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United States.
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USA
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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364.6/5/0973
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HV9304.M67 1990
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71.99bcl
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86.43bcl
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Tonry, Michael H.
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