Combining the latest work of leading sentencing and punishment scholars from ten different countries, this major new international volume answers key questions in the study of sentencing and society.

Contents: Introduction: so what does 'and society' mean?, Cyrus Tata. The International Movement Towards Transparency and 'Truth in Sentencing': Getting tough on crime: the history and political context of sentencing reform developments leading to the passage of the crime act, Judith Greene; A sentencing matrix for Western Australia: accountability and transparency or smoke and mirrors?, Neil Morgan; Mandatory sentences: a conundrum for the new South Africa?, Dirk van Zyl Smit; Are guided sentencing and sentence bargaining incompatible? perspectives of reform in the Italian legal system, Grazia Mannozzi; Legizlation and practice of sentencing in China, Liling Yue; Sentencing reform in Canada: who cares about corrections?, Mary E. Campbell. The Truth About Public and Victim Punitiveness: What do we Know and What do we Need to Know?: Public knowledge and public opinion of sentencing, Mike Hough and Julian V. Roberts; Crisis and contradictions in a state sentencing structure, B. Keith Crew, Gene M. Lutz and Kristine Fahrney; Harsher is not necessarily better: victim satisfaction with sentences imposed under a 'truth in sentencing' law, Candice McCoy and Patrick J. McManimon Jr. Measuring Punishment - Conceptual and Practical Problems and Resolutions: European sentencing traditions: accepting divergence or aiming for convergence? Andrew Ashworth; What's it worth? a cross-jurisdictional comparison of sentence severity, Arie Frieberg; Sentencing burglars in England and Finland: a pilot study, Malcolm Davies, Jukka-Pekka Takala and Jane Tyrer; A new look at sentence severity, Brian J. Ostrom and Charles W. Ostrom Jr; Desert and the punitiveness of imprisonment, Gavin Dingwall and Christopher Harding; The science of sentencing: measurement theory and von Hirsch's new scales of justice, Julia Davis; Scaling punishments: a reply to Julia Davis, Andrew von Hirsch; Scaling punishments: a response to von Hirsch, Julia Davis. Reason-Giving and Approaches to Expl

Cyrus Tata, Strathclyde University Law School, Scotland. Research Assistant 1992-4, Research Associate 1994-1995, Research Fellow 1995-1997; Lecturer in Law 1997-2001; Senior Lecturer in Law 2001-. Neil Hutton, has held posts at the Universities of Dundee, Edinburgh and Victoria University Wellington New Zealand. Employed in the Law School at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland since 1990. Books include: Lay Participation in a Public Local Inquiry Gower 1986, Lay Justice (with Z Bankowski and J J McManus) T and T Clark 1987, Co editor (with Peter Duff) Criminal Justice in Scotland, Ashgate 1999,