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Law General

Making Sense of Sentencing

edited by David P. Cole & Julian Roberts

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Jun 1999
Category
General, Courts
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802076441
    Publish Date
    Jun 1999
    List Price
    $52.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802006868
    Publish Date
    Jun 1999
    List Price
    $107.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442676923
    Publish Date
    May 1999
    List Price
    $84.00

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Description

On 3 September 1996, Bill C-41 was proclaimed in force, initiating one significant step in the reform of sentencing and parole in Canada. This is the first book that, in addition to providing an overview of the law, effectively presents a sociological analysis of the legal reforms and their ramifications in this controversial area.

The commissioned essays in this collection cover such crucial issues as options and alternatives in sentencing, patterns revealed by recent statistics, sentencing of minority groups, Bill C-41 and its effects, conditional sentencing, and the structure and relationship between parole and sentencing are clearly presented. An introduction, editorial comments beginning each chapter, and a concluding chapter draw the essays together resulting in a timely, comprehensive and extremely readable work on this critical topic.

Broad in scope and perspective, this major new socio-legal study of the law of sentencing will be illuminating to students, members of the legal profession, and the general reader.

About the authors

David P. Cole is a Provincial Court Judge in Scarborough, Ontario, who has considerable background in penal and parole litigation.

David P. Cole's profile page

Julian V. Roberts is Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa and editor of the Canadian Journal of Criminology. He previously worked for the Department of Justice Canada and the Canadian Sentencing commission.

Julian Roberts' profile page

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