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Seminar Guide - Sentencing Law & Policy

A guide to seminar-specific resources as well as general help writing a seminar paper.

Print Resources

The following books are available in the Law Library at the call numbers listed.

 

Kate Stith, Fear of Judging: Sentencing Guidelines in the Federal Courts, University of Chicago Press, 1998

KF9685 .S85 1998

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Cassia Spohn, How do Judges Decide? The Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment, SAGE Publishing, 2009 (2nd ed.)

KF9685 .S66 2009

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Richard S. Frase, Just Sentencing: Principles and Procedures for a Workable System, Oxford University Press, 2013

KF9685 .F738 2013

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Lynn S. Branham, The Law and Policy of Sentencing and Corrections in a Nutshell, West, 2010 (8th ed.)

RESERVE KF9728 .Z9 B73 2010

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Andrew Von Hirsch, Principled Sentencing: Readings on Theory and Policy, Hart, 2009

K5121 .Z9 P75 2009

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Dean J. Champion, Sentencing: a Reference Handbook, ABC-CLIO, 2008

RESERVE KF9685 .C53 2008

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Tamasak Wicharaya, Simple Theory, Hard Reality: the Impact of Sentencing Reforms on Courts, Prisons, and Crime, State University of New York Press, 1995

KF9685 .W52 1995