Recent Publications
Recent books, book chapters, and journal articles published by the University of Minnesota Law School faculty.
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– Symbol, Substance, and Severity in Western Penal Policies, 3 Punishment & Society 517-36 (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)
– Why Aren't German Penal Policies Harsher and Imprisonment Rates Higher?, 5 German Law Journal 1187-1206 (2004)
– Criminology, Mandatory Minimums, and Public Policy, 5 Criminology and Public Policy 45-56 (2006)
– The Functions of Sentencing and Sentencing Reform, 58 Stanford Law Review 37-66 (2005)
– Federal Sentencing Can Be Made More Just, If the Sentencing Commission Wants to Make It So, 12 Federal Sentencing Reporter 83 (Sept/Oct 1999)
– Obsolescence and Immanence in Penal Theory and Policy, 105 Columbia Law Review 1233-75 (2005), reprinted in Thinking about Punishment: Penal Policy Across Space, Time and Discipline (Ashgate, 2009)
– Punishment and Crime Across Space and Time, 33 Crime and Justice 1-39 (2005)
– 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)
– Determinants of Penal Policies, 36 Crime and Justice 1-48 (2007), reprinted in Thinking about Punishment: Penal Policy Across Space, Time and Discipline (Ashgate, 2009)
– Crime, Criminal Justice, and Criminology in the Netherlands, 35 Crime and Justice 1-30 (2007)
– Varieties of Youth Justice, 31 Crime and Justice 1-20 (2004)
– American Prisons at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century, 26 Crime and Justice 1-17 (1999)
– Criminology and Public Policy in the US and UK, in The Criminological Foundations of Penal Policy: Essays in Honour of Roger Hood (Lucia Zedner & Andrew Ashworth, eds., Oxford University Press, 2003)
– Foreword, in Hans Boutellier, Crime and Morality: The Significance of Criminal Justice in Post-Modern Culture (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000)
– Crime Does Not Cause Punishment: The Impact of Sentencing Policy on Levels of Crime, 20 SA Crime Quarterly 13-20 (2007)
– Setting Sentencing Policy through Guidelines, in Reform and Punishment: The Future of Sentencing (Sue A. Rex & Michael Tonry, eds., Willan, 2002)
– Girls in the Juvenile Justice System, in The Delinquent Girl 225 (Margaret A. Zahn, ed., Temple University Press, 2009)
– Foreword, in Sentencing and Society: International Perspectives (Cyrus Tata & Neil Hutton, eds., Ashgate, 2002)
– 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)
– Preface, in Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: International Perspectives (Tom R. Tyler , ed., Russell Sage Foundation, 2007)
– Criminology and Criminal Justice Research in Europe, in Punishment, Places and Perpetrators: Developments in Criminology and Criminal Justice Research (Gerben Bruinsma, Henk Elffers & Jan de Keijser, eds., Willan, 2004)
– Penal Policy, Political Culture, and Constitutional Obsolescence, in Penal Policy, Justice Reform and Social Exclusion: Plenary Presentations held at the Fifth Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, 31 August - 3 September 2005, Krakow, Poland (Kauko Aromaa, ed., European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, 2007)
– Punishment Policies and Politics in America, in Invitation to Corrections (Clemens Bartollas, ed., Allyn and Bacon, 2001)
– Is Sentencing in England and Wales Institutionally Racist?, in Confronting Crime: Crime Control Policy under New Labour (Michael Tonry, ed., Willan, 2003)
– 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)
– 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)
– Polityka Karna, Kultura Polityczna, A Zasady Konstytcyyjnet (Penal Policy, Political Culture, and Constitutional Obsolescence), 27 Archiwum Kriminologii (Polish Archives of Criminology) 95-110 (2007)
– Reconsidering Sentencing and Punishment in England and Wales, in Reform and Punishment: The Future of Sentencing (Sue A. Rex & Michael Tonry, eds., Willan, 2002)