Making Sense of Sentencing

by Roberts, Julian V.; Cole, David P.

• ISBN13: 9780802006868
• ISBN10: 0802006868
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

On 3 September 1996, Bill C-41 was proclaimed in force, initiating one significant step in the reform of sentencing and parole in Canada. This is the first book that, in addition to providing an overview of the law, effectively presents a sociological analysis of the legal reforms and their ramifications in this controversial area. The commissioned essays in this collection cover such crucial issues as options and alternatives in sentencing, patterns revealed by recent statistics, sentencing of minority groups, Bill C-41 and its effects, conditional sentencing, and the structure and relationship between parole and sentencing are clearly presented. An introduction, editorial comments beginning each chapter, and a concluding chapter draw the essays together resulting in a timely, comprehensive and extremely readable work on this critical topic. Broad in scope and perspective, this major new socio-legal study of the law of sentencing will be illuminating to students, members of the legal profession, and the general reader.

Author Biography

JULIAN V. ROBERTS is Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa and editor of the Canadian Journal of Criminology. He previously worked for the Department of Justice Canada and the Canadian Sentencing commission. DAVID P. COLE is a provincial court judge in Scarborough, Ontario and is co-author of Release from Imprisonment: The Law of Sentencing. He was co-chair of the Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction to Sentencing and Parole	p. 3
An Overview of Bill C-41 (The Sentencing Reform Act)	p. 31
Legislating the Purpose and Principles of Sentencing	p. 48
Conditional Sentences	p. 63
Conditional Sentencing: Issues and Problems	p. 77
Conditional Sentencing: Recent Developments	p. 98
Sentencing Options in Canada	p. 112
Sentencing Trends and Sentencing Disparity	p. 139
Sentencing Mentally III Offenders	p. 160
Sentencing Aboriginal Offenders: Some Critical Issues	p. 173
Punishing Female Offenders and Perpetuating Gender Stereotypes	p. 186
Sentencing Black Offenders in the Ontario Criminal Justice System	p. 200
The Role of Victims in the Sentencing Process	p. 217
Appellate Review of Sentencing Decisions	p. 230
Sentencing and Conditional Release	p. 242
Conditional Release from Imprisonment	p. 259
Sentencing and Early Release Arrangements for Offenders Convicted of Murder	p. 277
Sentencing Alternatives	p. 295
Federal Sentencing in America	p. 317
Sentencing Reform: Ten Years after the Canadian Sentencing Commission	p. 332
Sentencing Reform: Where Are We Now?	p. 349
References	p. 365
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