Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index.
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Part I: The issues in perspective -- 1. Evolution of the debate -- 2. Sentencing guidelines -- Part II: The conception of desert -- 3. Why punish proportionately? -- 4. Proportionality: determining or limiting? -- 5. Why punish at all? -- Part III: How much punishment is deserved? -- 6. Gauging the seriousness of crimes -- 7. Previous convictions -- 8. Anchoring the penalty scale -- Part IV: Selective incapacitation -- 9. Predictive efficacy -- 10. Impact on crime rates and prison populations -- 11. Ethical problems: the "no conflict" thesis -- 12. Prediction within broad desert limits? -- Part V: Synthesizing past and future -- 13. Categorial incapacitation -- 14. Strategies for synthesis -- 15. Concluding observations -- Appendixes: 1. The question of false positives -- 2. A note on Minnesota's sentencing guidelines.