Sentencing as a Social Practice

Abstract

Abstract Sentencing is not an area which has received much scholarly attention from sociologists. Most of the scholarly literature has been produced by philosophers who have pursued the normative questions about how to justify punishment in a liberal society (Duff 2000, Von Hirsch 1993) or by legal scholars writing about the legal regulation of sentencing (Ashworth 2000b). In the growing literature on the sociology of punishment there are only occasional references to sentencing (Garland 2001). There is a vast, mostly US, literature on sentencing as public policy (Tonry 1996). However, with a few exceptions, there has been little inquiry into the social character of sentencing.

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