Paying for the past : the case against prior record sentence enhancements /
Virtually all modern sentencing systems consider the offender's prior record to be an important determinant of the form and severity of punishment, often carrying more weight than the crime being sentenced. Repeat offenders "pay for their past," even though they have already been puni...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2019
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Prior record sentencing enhancements in context
- Retributive perspectives on an offender's criminal or crime-free past
- Prior record and the risk of recidivism
- What other factors indicate high or low recidivism risk?
- Are record-based enhancements a cost-effective and fair way to reduce crime?
- The effects of prior convictions on sentence severity / co-author Rhys Hester
- Adverse impacts on offense-based proportionality and prison-use priorities / co-author Rhys Hester
- Disproportionate impacts on minority offenders / co-author Rhys Hester
- Impacts of criminal history enhancements on prison bed needs and costs / co-author Rhys Hester
- The long arm of the law : look-back provisions
- Problematic components found in many criminal history formulas
- The model regime
- Appendix A. Representative criminal history provisions in U.S. guidelines
- Appendix B. Representative provisions from other common law systems
- Appendix C. Some offender groups that may require special treatment.