Criminal Deterrence and Sentencing Severity

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An analysis of recent research into the effectiveness of deterrence on patterns of criminal offending

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Andrew von Hirsch is Honorary Professor of Penal Theory and Penal Law,and Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, at the University of Cambridge. Anthony E Bottoms is the Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge and Associate Director of the Centre for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics. Elizabeth Burney is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Criminology in Cambridge. Per-Olof Wikstrm is a University Lecturer in the Sociology of Crime at the University of Cambridge.