Description: Sentencing Policy and Social Justice argues that the promotion of social justice should become a key objective of sentencing policy, advancing the argument that the legitimacy of sentencing ultimately depends upon the strength of the relationship between social morality and penal ideology.
Review Quotes: ""One of the most commendable achievements of this penetrating book is to open up questions about what other values sentencing does, and ought to, express and with what effect. Ralph Henham combines the rigour of a legal scholar with the critical and discursive reflections of a social scientist to consider the relationship between sentencing and social justice. ... This valuable text raises most of the right questions and makes progress towards answers that will always be controversial as well as elusive." -- Rob Canton, The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
I hope that these two books [Sentencing Policy and Social Justice, and Canton] have risen to the top of the list of the Minister of Justice's summer reading. It is well worth listening to the wisdom of both these experienced academic voices. - Nicola Padfield, (Criminal Law Review 2018, 10)