Michael Tonry: 5 books
Sentencing Fragments
Penal Reform in America, 1975-2025
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Almost everyone agrees--Right on Crime, the ACLU, Koch Industries, George Soros's Open Society Foundation, the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal--that America's current systems for sentencing criminal offenders are a shambles, with crazy quilts of incompatible and...
Punishing Race
A Continuing American Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven times likelier than white men to be in prison? Blacks are much more likely than whites to be stopped by the police,...
Thinking about Crime
Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2004
In this wide-ranging analysis, Michael Tonry argues that those responsible for crafting America's criminal justice policy have lost their way in a forest of good intentions, political cynicism, and public anxieties. American crime control politics over time have created a punishment system no one...
Human Development and Criminal Behavior
New Ways of Advancing Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Michael Tonry
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Labour has embarked upon a root and branch remaking of the criminal justice system in England and Wales, with a mass of new legislation implemented or planned. It has ensured a continuously high profile for criminal justice issues, and they have been at the centre of wider political discourse. Yet...