Prof. Frase Publishes New Book

Oxford University Press has published Professor Richard Frase's latest book, Just Sentencing: Principles and Procedures for a Workable System. The book presents a hybrid sentencing model that combines widely-endorsed normative principles with proven procedures inspired by the best state sentencing guidelines systems. The model's theoretical structure is an expanded version of limiting retributivism: the offender's blameworthiness sets upper and lower limits on sentence severity, within which crime control and other non-retributive purposes and limitations of punishment are applied. Almost all of the model's procedures and many of its normative principles have been successfully implemented in Minnesota and several other guidelines states; the core principles and procedures of the model have also been endorsed in model sentencing codes and standards. The book provides a strong defense of these state systems and models, and a detailed template for achievable and much-needed sentencing reform in other states.