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Book Reviews 591 Tom O’Malley looks at the example of the Irish Republic and questions the ability of progressive legal systems to live without guidelines. O’Malley cautions against an abrupt transition from barely constrained discretion to a system of guidelines. Cyrus Tata uses Scotland to analyse whether English and Welsh guidelines will spread and raises the interesting idea that only a threat to the judicial ownership of sentencing will prompt change. Warren Young and Andrea King authored The Origins and Evolution of Sentencing Guidelines: A Comparison of England and Wales and New Zealand which offers an in abstracto assessment of the effectiveness of, and comparison to, a sentencing system that is not yet operational. Equally interesting is the contribution from Kevin R. Reitz, who questions whether the US Systems Have Anything Worthwhile to Offer England and Wales? In stark contrast to England, the US sentencing system has been used to ensure consistency in out- comes, and in particular to control prison populations. Even so, Reitz details some interesting similarities in shifts in culture, including the view that sentencing decisions are more momen- tous and more deserving of argument and deliberation than in the pre-guidelines era. While the international dimension
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE
Published: Dec 1, 2015
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