Sentencing the Self-Convicted
The Ethics of Pleading Guilty
$102.58
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
22 August 2024
Summary
This book addresses the fundamental ethical and legal aspects, penal consequences, and social context arising from a citizen’s acceptance of guilt. The focus is upon sentencing people who have pleaded guilty; in short, post-adjudication, rather than issues arising from discussions in the pretrial phase of the criminal process.
The vast majority of defendants across all common law jurisdictions plead guilty and as a result receive a reduced sentence. Concessions by a defendant attract …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509957477 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509957472 |
| Author: | Julian V. Roberts, Jesper Ryberg |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Hart Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 22 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 154mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
Julian Roberts and Jesper Ryberg have assembled an estimable group of scholars whose contributions address a range of issues related to the submission of guilty pleas (or in some legal regimes, admissions of guilt) by individuals charged with crimes. As the essays in this valuable collection reveal, sentencing the ‘self-convicted’ is controversial in ways that reveal deeper fault lines among penal and criminal procedure theorists. – Richard L. Lippke * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *
Julian V. Roberts
Julian V Roberts is Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford, UK.
Jesper Ryberg is Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Law at Roskilde University, Denmark.
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