TY - BOOK AU - Cole,David P. AU - Roberts,Julian TI - Making Sense of Sentencing T2 - Heritage SN - 9780802006868 AV - KE9355 .M34 1998eb U1 - 345.71/0772 PY - 1999///] CY - Toronto : PB - University of Toronto Press, KW - Sentences (Criminal procedure) KW - Canada KW - LAW / Criminal Law / General KW - bisacsh N1 - restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442676923 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442676923/original ER -