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Limiting Retributivism and Individual Prevention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2021

Christopher Slobogin
Christopher Slobogin
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
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Advocates for wide sentence ranges based on retributive principles, with particular sentences presumptively set at the minimum of the range unless an individual is determined to be high risk based on a valid risk assessment, and explains how this regime would reduce the plea bargaining power of prosecutors

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preventive justicelimiting retributivismparole boardsparsimony principleplea bargaining
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Just Algorithms
Using Science to Reduce Incarceration and Inform a Jurisprudence of Risk
 , pp. 120 - 157
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Structure
  • Christopher Slobogin, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
  • Book: Just Algorithms
  • Online publication: 09 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108988025.006
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  • Structure
  • Christopher Slobogin, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
  • Book: Just Algorithms
  • Online publication: 09 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108988025.006
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  • Structure
  • Christopher Slobogin, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
  • Book: Just Algorithms
  • Online publication: 09 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108988025.006
Available formats
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