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From the considerable literature on sentencing and related issues, a dozen works may be selected for further reading. An excellent overview of the sociology of punishment may be found in David Garland, Punishment in Modern Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990). Wider readings on rationales for sentencing may be found in A. von Hirsch and A. Ashworth (eds), Principled Sentencing: Readings in Theory and Policy (2nd edn, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 1998), R. A. Duff and D. Garland (eds), A Reader on Punishment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), together with the edited works by M. Matravers (ed.), Punishment and Political Theory (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 1999) and A. Ashworth and M. Wasik (eds), Fundamentals of Sentencing Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). Three significant monographs on sentencing theory are N. Lacey, State Punishment (London: Routledge, 1988), R. A. Duff, Punishment, Communication and Community (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.), and A. von Hirsch and A. Ashworth, Proportionate Sentencing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).

Two texts that integrate the reforms of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 into broader sentencing law, theory, and practice are A. Ashworth, Sentencing and Criminal Justice (4th edn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) and S. Easton and C. Piper, Sentencing and Punishment: The Quest for Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). Older readings may be found in the relevant chapters of M. Wasik, T. Gibbons, and M. Redmayne, Criminal Justice: Text and Materials (London: Longman, 1999), and of N. Padfield, Text and Materials on the Criminal Justice Process (3rd edn, London: Butterworths, 2003). Short commentaries on the reforms introduced by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 may be found in A. von Hirsch and J. Roberts, 'Legislating Sentencing Principles' [2004] Crim. L.R. 639–52 and in A. Ashworth and E. Player (2005), 'Criminal Justice Act 2003: the Sentencing Provisions', Modern Law Review, 68: 822–38.

Large-scale research studies on sentencing may be found in C. Flood-Page and A. Mackie, Sentencing Practice: an examination of decisions in magistrates' courts and the Crown Court in the mid-1990s, Home Office Research Study No. 180 (London: Home Office, 1998); R. Hood, Race and Sentencing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992); and M. Hough, J. Jacobson, and A. Millie, The Decision to Imprison (London: Prison Reform Trust, 2003). Good, short discussions of sentencing may be found in chapter 4 of M. Cavadino and J. Dignan, The Penal System (3rd edn, London: Sage 2002), of which a fourth edition is pending; chapter 5 of L. Zedner, Criminal Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) and chapter 12 of D. Faulkner, Crime, State and Citizen (Winchester: Waterside Press, revised edn 2006).

For international comparisons of sentencing systems, four resources may be recommended: M. Tonry and K. Hatlestad (eds), Sentencing Reform in Overcrowded Times (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997); C. Clarkson and R. Morgan (eds), The Politics of Sentencing Reform (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995); M. Tonry and R. Frase (eds), Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001); and C. Tata and N. Hutton (eds), Sentencing and Society: International Perspectives (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2002).

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