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Sexually abusive behaviour challenges our moral compass – rightly so – and provokes us to rush to condemn the perpetrator. For those of us whose role it is to protect the the victims and survivors and onlookers, the affront can feel intensely personal. ....
This book asks how we should we make sense of sentencing when, despite huge efforts world-wide to analyse, critique and reform it, it remains an enigma. It reveals how both research and policy-thinking about sentencing are confined by a paradigm that presumes autonomous individualism. ....
Don Hummer (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is co-author/editor of, The Culture of Prison Violence (2008, Pearson), Handbook of Police Administration (2008, Taylor & Francis: CRC Press), and the forthcoming The Technology Revolution in Criminal Justice (Palgrave-MacMillan). His work, focused primarily on offender treatment and control, has appeared in peer-reviewed outlets such as Aggression & Violent Behavior, Probation Journal, Law & Policy, and The Prison Journal. Experience ....