More Than One Offense: Sentencing Multiple Crimes

Description

Most people assume that criminal offenders have only been convicted of a single crime. However, in reality almost half of offenders stand to be sentenced for more than one crime. The high proportion of multiple crime offenders poses a number of practical and theoretical challenges for the criminal justice system. For instance, how should courts punish multiple offenders relative to individuals who have been sentenced for a single crime? How should they be punished relative to each other? More than One Offense discusses these questions from the perspective of several legal theories. This volume considers questions such as the proportionality of the crimes committed, the temporal span between the crimes, and the relationship between theories about the punitive treatment of recidivists and multiple offenders. Contributors from around the world and in the fields of legal theory, philosophy, and psychology offer their perspectives to the volume. A comprehensive examination of the dynamics involved with sentencing multiple offenders has the potential to be a powerful tool for legal scholars and professionals, particularly given the practical importance of the topic and the relative dearth of research about punishment of multiple offense cases. Cover Series Sentencing Multiple Crimes Copyright Contents Acknowledgments List of Contributors 1. Sentencing the Multiple Offender: Setting the Stage 2. Retributivism, Multiple Offending, and Overall Proportionality 3. Exploring an Institutionalist and Post-​Desert Theoretical Approach to Multiple-​Offense Sentencing 4. Retributivism and Totality: Can Bulk Discounts for Multiple Offending Fit the Crime? 5. Multiple-​Offense Sentencing Discounts: Score One for Hybrid Accounts of Punishment 6. Parsimony and the Sentencing of Multiple Offenders 7. Multiple Offenders and the Question of Desert 8. Sentencing the Multiple-​Conviction Offender: Diminished Culpability for Related Criminal Conduct 9. Toward a Theoretical and Practical Model for Multiple-​Offense Sentencing 10. Multiple-​Offense Sentencing: Some Additional Thoughts 11. Principles and Procedures for Sentencing of Multiple Current Offenses 12. Sentencing the Multiple Offender: In Search of a “Just and Proportionate” Total Sentence 13. Multiple-​Offense Sentencing: Looking for Pragmatism, Not a Unifying Principle 14. Solving the Multiple-​Offense Paradox Index