{"product_id":"doing-justice-preventing-crime-michael-tonry-9780195320503","title":"Doing Justice, Preventing Crime","description":"Punishment policies and practices in the United States today are unprincipled, chaotic, and much too often unjust. The financial costs are enormous. The moral cost is greater: countless individual injustices, mass incarceration, the world's highest imprisonment rate, extreme disparities, especially affecting members of racial and ethnic minority groups, high rates of wrongful conviction, assembly line case processing, and a general absence of respectful consideration of offenders' interests, circumstances, and needs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eDoing Justice, Preventing Crime\u003c\/em\u003e, Michael Tonry lays normative and empirical foundations for building new, more just, and more effective systems of sentencing and punishment in the twenty-first century. The overriding goals are to treat people convicted of crimes justly, fairly, and even-handedly; to take sympathetic account of the circumstances of peoples' lives; and to punish no one more severely than he or she deserves. Drawing on philosophy and punishment theory, this book explains the structural changes needed to uphold the rule of law and its requirement that the human dignity of every person be respected. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn clear and engaging prose, Michael Tonry surveys what is known about the deterrent, incapacitative, and rehabilitative effects of punishment, and explains what needs to be done to move from an ignoble present to a better future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Tonry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0195320506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195320503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.10d","brand":"Michael Tonry","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43942897221887,"sku":"9780195320503","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9b36e5b2-4f0d-41ca-b062-f9f935dcbeb5.jpg?v=1681494998","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/doing-justice-preventing-crime-michael-tonry-9780195320503","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}