Edited by Joan Petersilia and Kevin R. Reitz
It is no secret that America's sentencing and corrections systems are in crisis, and neither system can be understood or repaired fully without careful consideration of the other. This handbook examines the intertwined and multi-layered fields of American sentencing and corrections from global
and historical viewpoints, from theoretical and policy perspectives, and with close attention to many problem-specific arenas. Editors Joan Petersilia and Kevin R. Reitz, both leaders in their respective fields, bring together a group of preeminent scholars to present state-of-the art research,
investigate current practices, and explore the implications of new and varied approaches wherever possible.
The handbook's contributors bridge the gap between research and policy across a range of topics including an overview of mass incarceration and its collateral effects, explorations
of sentencing theories and their applications, analyses of the full spectrum of correctional options, and first-hand accounts of life inside of and outside of prison. Individual chapters reflect expertise and source materials from multiple fields including criminology, law, sociology, psychology,
public policy, economics, political science, and history.
Proving that the problems of sentencing and corrections, writ large, cannot be addressed effectively or comprehensively within the confines of any one discipline, The Oxford Handbook of Sentencing and Corrections is a vital
reference volume on these two related and central components of America's ongoing experiment in mass incarceration.
Joan Petersilia and Kevin R. Reitz: Introduction: Sentencing and Corrections: Overlapping and Inseparable Subjects
Part I: Sentencing & Corrections: History and Present Context
1. Jonathan Simon: Mass Incarceration: From Social Policy to Social Problem
2. Michael Tonry: Race,
Ethnicity, and Punishment
3. Alec Ewald and Christopher Uggen: The Collateral Effects of Imprisonment on Prisoners, Their Families, and Communities
4. Julian V. Roberts: Crime Victims, Sentencing, and Release from Prison
Part II: Sentencing
A. Sentencing Theories and Their
Application
5. Richard S. Frase: Theories of Proportionality and Desert
6. James L. Nolan, Jr.: Problem-Solving Courts: An International Comparison
7. Cheryl Marie Webster and Anthony N. Doob: Searching for Sasquatch: Deterrence of Crime Through Sentence Severity
8. Christopher
Slobogin: Risk Assessment
9. Lawrence W. Sherman and Heather Strang: Restorative Justice as Evidence-Based Sentencing
B. Sentencing Systems
10. Ronald D. Wright: Charging and Plea Bargaining as Forms of Sentencing Discretion
11. Kevin R. Reitz: The "Traditional" Indeterminate
Sentencing Model
12. Robert Weisberg: The Sentencing Commission Model, 1970s to Present
13. Nancy J. King: Procedure at Sentencing
Part III: Corrections
A. The Correctional Context
14. Karol Lucken and Thomas G. Blomberg: American Corrections: Reform Without
Change
B. Community Corrections and Intermediate Punishments
15. Faye S. Taxman: Probation, Intermediate Sanctions & Community-Based Corrections
C. Jails, Prisons and Other Secure Facilities
16. Gary F. Cornelius: Jails, Pretrial Detention and Short-Term
Confinement
17. George M. Camp and Bert Useem: Prison Governance: Correctional Leadership in the Current Era
18. Richard W. Harding: Regulating Conditions: Some International Comparisons
D. What Works in Correctional Treatment?
19. Steven Belenko, Kimberly A. Houser, and Wayne
Welsh: Understanding the Impact of Drug Treatment in Correctional Settings
20. Doris MacKenzie: The Effectiveness of Corrections-Based Work and Academic and Vocational Education Programs
E. Managing a Changing Offender Population
21. Jennifer Skeem & Jillian Peterson: Identifying,
Treating, and Reducing Risk for Offenders with Mental Illness
22. Roxanne Lieb: Sex Offender Management and Treatment
23. LaTosha Traylor and Beth Richie: Female Offenders and Women in Prison
24. Craig Haney: The Psychological Impacts of Prison Confinement
25. Michael Santos: Living
Life Behind Bars in America
F. Prison Release and Reentry Challenges
26. Edward Rhine: The Present Status and Future Prospects of Parole Boards and Parole Supervision
27. Tom Le Bel and Shadd Maruna: Life on the Outside: Transitioning From Prison to the Community
28. Christy
Visher and Jeremy Travis: The Characteristics of Prisoners Returning Home and Effective Reentry Programs and Policies
G. The Death Penalty
29. Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker: Broken and Beyond Repair: The American Death Penalty and the Insuperable Obstacles to Reform
30.
Franklin E. Zimring and David Johnson: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs: Four Destructive Influences of Capital Punishment on American Criminal Justice
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Joan Petersilia is the Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. She is the author of When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry and coeditor, with James Q. Wilson, of Crime and Public Policy. Kevin R. Reitz is James Annenberg La Vea Land Grant Chair in Criminal
Procedure Law at University of Minnesota Law School. He currently serves as Reporter for the American Law Institute's project to revise the sentencing and corrections articles of the Model Penal Code. He is coauthor, with Henry Ruth, of The Challenge of Crime: Rethinking Our Response.
