Sentencing as craftwork and the binary epistemologies of the discretionary decision process

Social and Legal Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 425-447

  Tata, Cyrus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Courts; Craft; Discretion; Disparity; Judging; Punishment; Sentencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547856615     PISSN: 09646639     EISSN: 14617390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0964663907079767     Document Type: Article

References (64)

1. Albrecht, Hans-Jorg (1994) 'Sentencing and Disparity - A Comparative Study', European Journal on Criminal Policy and Criminal Research 2: 98 - 104.
2. Baumgartner, Martha (1992) ' The Myth of Discretion', pp. 129-62 in K. Hawkins (ed.) The Uses of Discretion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
3. Becker, Howard (1978) ' Arts and Crafts ', American Journal of Sociology 83 (2). 862 - 89.
4. Bottoms, Anthony and J.D. McClean (1976) Defendants in the Criminal Process. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
5. Bourdieu, Pierre (1977) Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6. Bourdieu, Pierre (1987) ' The Force of Law: Towards a Sociology of the Juridical Field', Hastings Law Journal 38: 814 - 53.
7. Brownlee, I. (1994) ' Taking the Strait-jacket Off: Persistence and Distribution of Punishment in England and Wales', Legal Studies 14 (3). 295 - 312.
8. Carlen, Pat (1976) Magistrates' Justice. London: Martin Robertson and Co.
9. Cover, Robert (1975) Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
10. Davis, Julia (2002) ' The Science of Sentencing: Measurement Theory and von Hirsch's New Scales of Justice', pp. 329-59 in C. Tata and N. Hutton (eds) Sentencing and Society: International Perspectives. Aldershot: Ashgate.
11. Doob, Anthony and Jean-Paul Brodeur (1995) ' Achieving Accountability in Sentencing', pp. 376 - 96 in P. Stenning (ed.) Accountability for Criminal Justice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
12. Dworkin, Ronald (1977) Taking Rights Seriously. Harvard, MA: Harvard University Press.
13. Eisenstein, James and Herbert Jacob (1991) Felony Justice: An Organizational Analysis of Criminal Courts. Little and Brown.
14. Ericson, Richard (1995) ' The News Media and Accountability in Criminal Justice', pp. 135-61 in P. Stenning (ed.) Accountability for Criminal Justice: Selected Essays. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
15. Ericson, Richard and Kevin Haggerty (1997) Policing the Risk Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
16. Feeley, Malcolm and J. Simon (1992) ' The New Penology: Notes on the Emerging Strategy for Corrections ', Criminology 30 (4). 449 - 75.
17. Feeley, Malcolm and J. Simon (1994) ' Actuarial Justice: The Emerging New Criminal Law', pp. 173 - 95 in D. Nelken (ed.) The Futures of Criminology. London: SAGE Publications.
18. Flemming, Roy, Peter Nardulli and James Eisenstein (1992) The Craft of Justice. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
19. Franko Aas, Katja (2005) Sentencing in the Age of Information. London: Glasshouse Press.
20. Garland, David (2001) The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
21. Halliday, Simon, Cyrus Tata, Fergus McNeill, Nicola Burns and Neil Hutton (2007 a) Social Enquiry Reports in the Sheriff Court. Swindon: ESRC.
22. Halliday, Simon, Fergus McNeill, Cyrus Tata, and Neil Hutton (2007 b) 'Status, Regulatory, Space, and Pre-Sentence Reports', forthcoming.
23. Hawkins, Keith (1992) ' Social Processes in the Use of Discretion', pp. 113-28 in K. Hawkins (ed.) The Uses of Discretion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
24. Hawkins, Keith (2003) 'Order, Rationality and Silence', pp. 186 - 219 in L. Gelsthorpe and N. Padfield (eds) Exercising Discretion. Cullompton: Willan.
25. Henham, Ralph (1996) Criminal Justice and Sentencing Policy. Dartmouth.
26. Henham, Ralph (1997) ' Protective Sentences: Ethics, Rights, and Sentencing Policy ', International Journal of the Sociology of Law 25: 25 - 64.
27. Henham, Ralph (1998) ' Sentencing Policy and the Abolition of Parole and Early Release ', International Journal of the Sociology of Law 25: 337 - 61.
28. Hogarth, John (1971) Sentencing as a Human Process. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
29. Hutton, Neil (1997) ' Sentencing in the New South Africa: The Prospects for Reform ', International Journal of the Sociology of Law 25: 315 - 35.
30. Hutton, Neil (2006) ' Sentencing as a Social Practice', pp. 155 - 73 in S. Armstrong and L. McAra (eds) Perspectives on Punishment. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
31. Hutton, Neil and Cyrus Tata (2000) ' The Judicial Role in the "Balance" between Two Different Visions of Justice in Sentencing', pp. 307-22 in S. Doran and J. Jackson (eds) The Judicial Role in Criminal Proceedings. Oxford: Hart Publishing.
32. Kemshall, Hazel and Michael Maguire (2001) ' Public Protection, Partnership and Risk Penality ', Punishment & Society 3 (2). 237 - 64.
33. Lacey, Nicola (1992) ' The Jurisprudence of Discretion: Escaping the Legal Paradigm', pp. 261-387 in K. Hawkins (ed.) The Uses of Discretion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
34. Leibling, Alison and David Price (2003) ' Prison Officers and the Use of Discretion', pp. 74 - 97 in L. Gelsthorpe and N. Padfield (eds) Exercising Discretion. Cullompton: Willan.
35. Lipsky, Michael (1980) Street Level Bureaucracy. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
36. Lovegrove, Austin (1989) Judicial Decision Making, Sentencing Policy and Numerical Guidance. New York: Springer-Verlag.
37. McBarnet, Doreen (1981) Conviction. London: Martin Robertson.
38. McBarnet, Doreen and Christopher Whelan (1997) ' Creative Compliance and the Defeat of Legal Control', pp. 177-98 in K. Hawkins (ed.) The Human Face of Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
39. Mather, Lynn (1979) Plea Bargaining or Trial? The Process of Criminal Case Disposition. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
40. Maurutto, Paula and Kelly Hannah-Moffat (2006) ' Assembling Risk and the Reconstructing of Penal Control', British Journal of Criminology 46: 438 - 54.
41. Mears, Daniel (1998) ' The Sociology of Sentencing: Reconceptualizing Decisionmaking Processes and Outcomes ', Law & Society Review 32 (3). 667 - 724.
42. Nardulli, Peter, James Eisenstein and Roy Flemming (1988) The Tenor of Justice: Criminal Courts and the Guilty Plea Process. Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press.
43. Nussbaum, Martha (1986) The Fragility of Goodness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
44. O'Malley, Pat (2004) ' The Uncertain Promise of Risk', ANZ Journal of Criminology 37: 323 - 54.
45. Roach Anleu, Sharyn and Kathy Mack (2005) ' Magistrates' Everyday Work and Emotional Labour', Journal of Law & Society 32: 590 - 614.
46. Roberts, Julian (1997) ' The Role of Criminal Record in the Sentencing Process', pp. 3 - 31 in Michael Tonry (ed.) Crime and Justice: A Review of Research. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
47. Robinson, Gwen (2002) ' Exploring Risk Management in Probation Practice ', Punishment & Society 4: 5 - 25.
48. Schulte, Joachim (1992) Wittgenstein: An Introduction. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
49. Sewell, William (1992) ' A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation ', American Journal of Sociology 98: 1 - 29.
50. Shapland, Joanna (1987) ' Who Controls Sentencing ?', pp. 77 - 87 in Donald Pennington and Sally Lloyd-Bostock (eds) The Psychology of Sentencing: Approaches to Consistency and Disparity. Oxford: Centre for Socio-legal Studies.
51. Spohn, Cassia (2002) How Do Judges Decide ? London: SAGE Publications.
52. Tata, Cyrus (1997) ' Conceptions and Representations of the Sentencing Decision Process ', Journal of Law & Society 27: 395 - 420.
53. Tata, Cyrus (2002) ' Accountability for the Sentencing Decision Process: Towards a New Understanding', pp. 396-420 in C. Tata and N. Hutton (eds) Sentencing and Society. Aldershot: Ashgate.
54. Tata, Cyrus (2007) 'Commerce or Clients - Which Comes First? Supply, Demand, and "Ethical Indeterminacy "', in Criminal Defence Work, forthcoming.
55. Tata, Cyrus and Neil Hutton (2003) ' Beyond the Technology of Quick Fixes', Federal Sentencing Reporter 16: 67 - 75.
56. Tata, Cyrus, Fergus McNeill, Neil Hutton, Simon Halliday and Nicola Burns (2006) ' Sweet Persuasion? Information, Influence and Quality in Pre-sentence Social Enquiry Reports '. Paper presented at the SLSA conference, Stirling.
57. Tata, Cyrus, Fergus McNeill, Neil Hutton, Simon Halliday and Nicola Burns (2007) ' The Interpretation and Use of Pre-sentence Reports'. Paper presented to the International Society for the Reform of the Criminal Law.
58. Tata, Cyrus and Frank Stephen (2006) '" Swings and Roundabouts": Do Changes to the Structure of Legal Aid Make a Real Difference to Criminal Case Outcomes? ' Criminal Law Review 46: 722 - 41.
59. Thomas, David (1963) ' Sentencing: The Case for Reasoned Decisions ', Criminal Law Review 10: 245 - 53.
60. Tombs, Jacqueline and Elizabeth Jagger (2006) ' Denying Responsibility: Sentencers' Accounts of Their Decisions to Imprison ', British Journal of Criminology 46: 803 - 21.
61. Travers, Max (forthcoming) ' Sentencing in the Children's Court: An Ethnographic Perspective', Youth Justice.
62. van Zyl Smit, Dirk (2002) ' Mandatory Sentences: A Conundrum for the New South Africa ?', pp. 90 - 109 in C. Tata and N. Hutton (eds) Sentencing and Society. Aldershot: Ashgate.
63. Von Hirsch, Andrew (1987) ' The Sentencing Commission's Functions', pp. 3-15 in A. von Hirsch, K. Knapp, and M. Tonry (eds) The Sentencing Commission and its Guidelines. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press.
64. Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1958 /2001) Philosophical Investigations. Oxford: Blackwell.