More Than One Offense: Sentencing Multiple Crimes

289 Pages·2017·7.06 MB·English

by  Jesper Ryberg

Sentencing Multiple Crimes
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Multiple Crimes
EDITED BY
JESPER RYBERG
JULIAN V. ROBERTS
JAN W. DE KEIJSER
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Names: Ryberg, Jesper, editor. | Roberts, Julian V., editor. |
Keijser, Jan Willem de, 1968– editor.
Title: Sentencing Multiple Crimes / edited by
Jesper Ryberg, Julian V. Roberts and Jan W. de Keijser.
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Oxford University Press, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017010037 | ISBN 9780190607609 (hardcover) |
ISBN 9780190607616 (updf) | ISBN 9780190607623 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Sentences (Criminal procedure) | Compound offenses.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments  vii
List of Contributors  ix
1. Sentencing the Multiple Offender: Setting the Stage  1
Julian V. Roberts, Jesper Ryberg, and Jan W. de Keijser
2. Retributivism, Multiple Offending, and Overall Proportionality  13
Jesper Ryberg
3. Exploring an Institutionalist and Post- Desert Theoretical Approach
to Multiple- Offense Sentencing  31
Anthony Bottoms
4. Retributivism and Totality: Can Bulk Discounts for Multiple
Offending Fit the Crime?  57
Christopher Bennett
5. Multiple- Offense Sentencing Discounts: Score One for Hybrid
Accounts of Punishment  75
Zachary Hoskins
6. Parsimony and the Sentencing of Multiple Offenders  95
Richard L. Lippke
7. Multiple Offenders and the Question of Desert  113
Youngjae Lee
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8. Sentencing the Multiple- Conviction Offender: Diminished
Culpability for Related Criminal Conduct  137
Julian V. Roberts and Jan W. de Keijser
9. Toward a Theoretical and Practical Model for Multiple- Offense
Sentencing  163
Natalia Vibla
10. Multiple- Offense Sentencing: Some Additional Thoughts  183
Andreas von Hirsch
11. Principles and Procedures for Sentencing of Multiple Current
Offenses  189
Richard S. Frase
12. Sentencing the Multiple Offender: In Search of a “Just and
Proportionate” Total Sentence  211
Andrew Ashworth and Martin Wasik
13. Multiple- Offense Sentencing: Looking for Pragmatism, Not a
Unifying Principle  225
Allan Manson
14. Solving the Multiple- Offense Paradox  241
Michael Tonry
Index   267
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The chapters in this volume are the result of an international seminar held at
the Social Sciences Building, University of Oxford, December 10– 12, 2015.
Financial support for the seminar was generously provided by the Centre for
Penal Ethics at the University of Cambridge; Roskilde University; the Institute
for Criminal Law and Criminology at Leiden University; the Faculty of Law,
University of Oxford; and the Centre of Criminology, University of Oxford. Our
thanks to all the participants at the Oxford seminar for their valuable contribu-
tions to the discussions. We are very grateful to Dr. Gabrielle Watson for edito-
rial and research assistance, and to James Cook from Oxford University Press for
his support of the project.
Oxford, October 15, 2016
Jesper Ryberg
Julian V. Roberts
Jan W. de Keijser
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CONTRIBUTORS
Andrew Ashworth is Vinerian Professor of English Law Emeritus in the
University of Oxford, and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of
Tasmania.
Christopher Bennett is Reader in the Department of Philosophy, University of
Sheffield.
Anthony Bottoms is Emeritus Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the University
of Cambridge; Life Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge; Honorary Professor
of Criminology at the University of Sheffield; and Codirector of the Centre for
Penal Theory and Penal Ethics, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.
Jan W. de Keijser is Professor of Criminology at the Institute for Criminal Law
and Criminology, Leiden University.
Richard S. Frase is Benjamin N. Berger Professor of Criminal Law at the
University of Minnesota Law School and Codirector of the Robina Institute of
Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, University of Minnesota.
Zachary Hoskins is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the
University of Nottingham.
Youngjae Lee is Professor of Law at Fordham University.
Richard L. Lippke is Professor of Criminal Justice and Department Chair in
Criminal Justice at Indiana University Bloomington.
Allan Manson is Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law, Queen’s University.
Julian V. Roberts is Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford;
Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford; and member of the Sentencing Council
of England and Wales.
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