Recent Publications
Recent books, book chapters, and journal articles published by the University of Minnesota Law School faculty.
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– Evidence, Elections and Ideology in the Making of Criminal Justice Policy, in Confronting Crime: Crime Control Policy under New Labour (Michael Tonry, ed., Willan, 2003)
– Why Aren't German Penal Policies Harsher and Imprisonment Rates Higher?, 5 German Law Journal 1187-1206 (2004)
– The Prospects for Institutionalization of Restorative Justice Initiatives in Western Countries, in Institutionalizing Restorative Justice (Ivo Aertsen, Tom Daems & Luc Robert, eds., Willan, 2006)
– Looking Back to See the Future of Punishment in America, 74 Social Research 353-78 (2007)
– American Prisons at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century, 26 Crime and Justice 1-17 (1999)
– Preface, in Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: International Perspectives (Tom R. Tyler , ed., Russell Sage Foundation, 2007)
– Unthought Thoughts: The Influence of Changing Sensibilities on Penal Policies, 3 Punishment & Society 167-181 (2001), reprinted in Mass Imprisonment: Social Causes and Consequences (David Garland, ed., Sage, 2001)
– "Transnational" "Organized" "Crime," in The Containment of Transnational Organized Crime: Comments on the UN Convention of December 2000 (Hans-Jörg Albrecht & Cyrille Fijnault, eds., Max-Planck-Institute, 2002)
– Reducing the Prison Population, in Confronting Crime: Crime Control Policy under New Labour (Michael Tonry, ed., Willan, 2003)
– Crime, in Handbook of Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective (George Ritzer, ed., Sage Publications, 2004), reprinted in Contemporary Readings in Social Problems (Anna Leon-Guerrero & Kristine M. Zentgraf, eds., Pine Forge Press, 2009)
– Cross-National Measures of Punitiveness, 33 Crime and Justice 347-376 (2005)
– Purposes and Functions of Sentencing, 34 Crime and Justice 1-53 (2006), reprinted in Thinking about Punishment: Penal Policy Across Space, Time and Discipline (Ashgate, 2009)
– Crime Does Not Cause Punishment: The Impact of Sentencing Policy on Levels of Crime, 20 SA Crime Quarterly 13-20 (2007)
– Punishment Policies and Patterns in Western Countries, in Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries (Michael Tonry & Richard S. Frase, eds., Oxford University Press, 2001), reprinted in Thinking about Punishment: Penal Policy Across Space, Time and Discipline (Ashgate, 2009)
– Violent Girls or Relabeled Status Offenders? An Alternative Interpretation of the Data, 55 Crime & Delinquency 241 (2009)
– Foreword, in Sentencing and Society: International Perspectives (Cyrus Tata & Neil Hutton, eds., Ashgate, 2002)
– The Death Penalty in the United States, in Zwischen Mediation und Lebenslang: Neue Wege in der Kriminalitätsbekämpfurg (Volker Dittmar, André Kuhn, Renie Maag & Hans Wiprächtiger, eds., Verlag Rüegger, 2002)
– Varieties of Youth Justice, 31 Crime and Justice 1-20 (2004)
– The Functions of Sentencing and Sentencing Reform, 58 Stanford Law Review 37-66 (2005)
– Criminology, Mandatory Minimums, and Public Policy, 5 Criminology and Public Policy 45-56 (2006)
– Crime, Criminal Justice, and Criminology in the Netherlands, 35 Crime and Justice 1-30 (2007)
– Foreword, in Hans Boutellier, Crime and Morality: The Significance of Criminal Justice in Post-Modern Culture (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000)
– Foreword, in David A. Green, When Children Kill: Penal Populism and Political Culture (Oxford University Press, 2008)
– Punishment Policies and Politics in America, in Invitation to Corrections (Clemens Bartollas, ed., Allyn and Bacon, 2001)
– Reconsidering Sentencing and Punishment in England and Wales, in Reform and Punishment: The Future of Sentencing (Sue A. Rex & Michael Tonry, eds., Willan, 2002)
– Is Sentencing in England and Wales Institutionally Racist?, in Confronting Crime: Crime Control Policy under New Labour (Michael Tonry, ed., Willan, 2003)
– Has the Prison a Future?, in The Future of Imprisonment (Michael Tonry, ed., Oxford University Press, 2004)
– Why Have Dutch Penal Policies and Practices become More Punitive?, in Op het rechte pad:
liber amicorum Peter J.P. Tak (Ybo Buruma, ed., Wolf Legal Publishers, 2008)
– Learning from the Limitations of Deterrence Research, 37 Crime and Justice 279 (2008)
– Crime and Human Rights: How Political Paranoia, Protestant Fundamentalism, and Constitutional Obsolescence Combined to Devastate Black America, 46 Criminology 1-33 (2008)