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  title info:
    title: Sentencing in time
  name:
    name part: Meyer, Linda
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  name:
    name part: Amherst College
    name part: Press,
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Open access publications.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (110 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "Exactly how is it we think the ends of justice are accomplished by means of sentencing a convict to a term in prison? How do we relate a quantitative measure of time--months and years--to the objectives of deterring crime, punishing wrongdoers, and accomplishing a quality of justice for those touched by a criminal act? Linda Meyer investigates these questions, examining the disconnect between our two basic modes of thinking about time--chronologically (seconds, minutes, hours), or phenomenologically (observing, taking note of, or being aware of the passing of time). Meyer asks whether--in overlooking the irreconcilability of these two modes of thinking about time--we are failing to accomplish anything near to the ends we believe the criminal justice system is designed to serve. Drawing on work in philosophy, legal theory, jurisprudence, and the history of penology, Meyer explores how, rather than condemning prisoners to an experience of time bereft of meaning, we might instead make the experience of incarceration constructively meaningful--and thus better aligned with social objectives of deterring crime, reforming offenders, and restoring justice."--Publisher
  table of contents: The phenomenological fallacy: out of sight, out of time -- The cosmological fallacy: time is a thing with quantity -- Doing x amount of time for x amount of crime -- Is meaninglessness itself a kind of justified punishment? -- Bad time and good time -- Alternative: "serving" a sentence: sentencing as service -- Objections and responses -- Appendix: Supreme Court decisions of note: In re: Medley ; Ruiz v. Texas (dissent of Justice Breyer) ; Ewing v. California ; Brown v. Plata ; Pepper v. United States ; Miller v. Alabama.
  note: Linda Ross Meyer.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Sentences (Criminal procedure)
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Prison sentences
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Criminal justice, Administration of
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Sentences (Procédure pénale)
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Peines d'emprisonnement
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Justice pénale
    topic: Administration
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: LAW
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Criminal justice, Administration of
  subject:
    topic: Prison sentences
  subject:
    topic: Sentences (Criminal procedure)
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: KF9685 .M494 2017eb
  classification: 345.73/0772
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    title info:
      title: Sentencing in time
    identifier: (OCoLC)1002218770
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    title info:
      title: Public works (Amherst, Mass.)
  identifier: 9781943208098
  identifier: 1943208093
  identifier: 9781943208081
  identifier: 1943208085
  identifier: 22573/ctv24rh8zm JSTOR
  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.10033584
  record info:
    record content source: AMH
    record creation date: 171116
    record change date: 20230103223338.1
    record identifier: in00004634915
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng