• Preface


• Acknowledgments


• Chapter 1. Sentencing Matters


• Chapter 2. Sentencing Fragments


• Chapter 3. Federal Sentencing


• Chapter 4. Sentencing Theories


• Chapter 5. Sentencing Principles


• Chapter 6. Reinventing Sentencing


• References


• Index

Michael Tonry is Marvin J. Sonosky Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of Minnesota, and Senior Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement at Free University in Amsterdam.

Michael Tonry traces four decades of American sentencing policy and practice to illuminate the convoluted sentencing system, from early reforms in the mid-1970's to the transition towards harsher sentences in the mid-1980's. Combining a history of policy with an examination of current research findings regarding the consequences of the sentencing system, Sentencing Fragments calls attention to its devastatingly unjust effects on the lives of the poor and disadvantaged.