Recent Publications

– 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)

– 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)

– Penal Policy at the Beginning of the 21st Century, in Penal Reform in Overcrowded Times (Michael Tonry, ed., Oxford University Press, 2001)

– Foreword, in David A. Green, When Children Kill: Penal Populism and Political Culture (Oxford University Press, 2008)

– Community Penalties in the United States, in Community Sanctions and Measures in Europe and North America (Hans-Jörg Albrecht & Anton van Kalmthout, eds., Max-Planck Institute, 2002)

– 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)

– "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)

– Has the Prison a Future?, in The Future of Imprisonment (Michael Tonry, ed., Oxford University Press, 2004)

– Unmitigated Punishment: Adolescent Criminal Responsibility and LWOP Sentences, 10 Journal of Law & Family Studies 11 (2007) (Distinguished Lecture, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law)

– Crime and Human Rights: How Political Paranoia, Protestant Fundamentalism, and Constitutional Obsolescence Combined to Devastate Black America, 46 Criminology 1-33 (2008)

– Explanations of American Punishment Policies: A National History, 11 Punishment & Society 377-94 (2009), reprinted in Thinking about Punishment: Penal Policy Across Space, Time and Discipline (Ashgate, 2009)

– Cases and Materials on Juvenile Justice Administration (West Group, 2000; 2d ed., 2004; 3d ed., 2009; 4th ed., 2013)

– Neutralizing Inmate Violence: Juvenile Offenders in Institutions (Ballinger Publishing Company, 1977)

– Juvenile Justice Standards Relating to Rights of Minors (American Bar Association - Ballinger Publishing Company, 1980)

– Law and Society: Sociological Perspectives on Criminal Law (Little, Brown & Company, 1983)

– Justice for Children: The Right to Counsel and the Juvenile Court (Northeastern University Press, 1993)

– Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration (Oxford University Press, 1999) (editor)

– Bad Kids: Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court (Oxford University Press, 1999) (recipient of the 2001 Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the 2002 Michael J. Hindelang Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology), reprinted in part in Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Crime and Criminology (Thomas J. Hickey, ed., McGraw-Hill, 9th ed., 2010) and in Principled Sentencing: Readings on Theory and Policy (Andrew von Hirsch, Andrew Ashworth & Julian Roberts, eds., Hart Publishing, 3d ed., 2009)

– The Untold Story of America's First Sentencing Commission, 21 Federal Sentencing Reporter 265 (2009)

– The Malign Effects of Drug and Crime Control Policies on Black Americans, 37 Crime and Justice 1-44 (2008), reprinted in Thinking about Punishment: Penal Policy Across Space, Time and Discipline (Ashgate, 2009)

– Learning from the Limitations of Deterrence Research, 37 Crime and Justice 279 (2008)

– 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)

– Crime and Public Policy, in The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Public Policy (Michael Tonry, ed., Oxford University Press, 2009)

– Teacher's Manual to Accompany Cases and Materials on Juvenile Justice Administration (West Publishing, 1st ed., 2000; 2d ed., 2004; 3d ed., 2009)

– Onderzoek naar afschrikking: de noodzaak om klein te denken als we iets nieuws willen leren, 34(2) Justitiële Verkenningen 98-117 (2008)