The Sentencing Of Sex Offenders

Download or read book The Sentencing of Sex Offenders written by James Allen Black and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research into the sentencing process as it pertains to sex offenses remains essentially unformulated. Efforts to give appropriate empirical attention to the subject have invariably suffered from a failure to grasp the nature and scope of the sentencing process. Consequently, the bulk of the attention has been paid to legislative attempts to cope with the problem while the role of the courts has been sorely neglected. The literature can be searched in vain for evidence that the court has been directly subjected to rigorous empirical scrutiny. It is imperative that a minimally adequate examination of the sentencing practices of the courts in sex offense cases be fashioned, placed within a clear-cut, comprehensive theoretical perspective embracing sentencing practices within the framework of law as a social institution. Such an approach necessitates discussing three closely related subjects: (l) the nature and aims of the criminal law, with attention to the question of punishment; (2) the sentencing process, with special emphasis on the criteria which govern judicial action and the consistency with which the judiciary functions; and (3) the disposition of sex offense cases by the courts.