期刊名称：International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
印刷版ISSN：2202-7998
电子版ISSN：2202-8005
出版年度：2020
卷号：9
期号：3
页码：174-176
DOI：10.5204/ijcjsd.v9i3.1517
语种：English
出版社：Queensland Uuniversity of Technology
摘要：The study of sentencing as a social phenomenon rather than a purely legal event has, until recently, been uncommon. Sentencing is a complex, multilayered experience and analysing it exclusively through a narrow legal lens privileges certain types of knowledge and elides other important perspectives. Tata, in this eminently readable book, notes the limitations of current academic discourse around sentencing. He examines what he calls 'sentencing professionals' in an analysis of how lawyers and non-legal workers such as social workers and probation officers work collaboratively to present the individual as a suitable subject for criminal justice treatment. Importantly, he demonstrates how this work achieves and maintains an individualistic stance that denies the existence of collective problems. In another chapter, Tata confronts criminologists who insist that technocratic justice has taken over completely from judicial discretion, arguing that this totalising thesis obscures the more complex reality_that sentencing has always relied on the creation of categories and classifications.
关键词：Sentencing;sentencing policy;criminal justice systems
