Michael Tonry

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law

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1.

Why Crime Rates Are Falling Throughout the Western World

43 Crime & Justice, 2014, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-41
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 09 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2015
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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cross-national crime trends, declining crime rates, crime rates, comparative criminal justice

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An Honest Politician's Guide to Deterrence: Certainty, Severity, Celerity, and Parsimony

Deterrence, Choice, and Crime: Contemporary Perspectives (Daniel S. Nagin, Francis Cullen & Cheryl Lero Jonson, eds., New York: Routledge, 2018 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Jun 2017
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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deterrence, marginal deterrence, individual deterrence, Bentham, Beccaria, Durkheim

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Sentencing in America, 1975-2025

'Crime and Justice in America, 1975-2025', Michael Tonry (ed.), University of Chicago Press, 2013, Forthcoming , Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-44
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 05 Sep 2013
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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sentencing

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Predictions of Dangerousness in Sentencing: Déjà Vu All Over Again

Crime and Justice—A Review of Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 20 Dec 2018
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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prediction of dangerousness, violence prediction, retributivism, utilitarianism

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Can Deserts Be Just in an Unjust World?

Liberal Criminal Theory: Essays for Andreas von Hirsch, edited by Andrew P. Simester, Ulfrid Neumann, and Antje du Bois-Pedain (Hart 2014, Forthcoming), Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-10
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 07 Feb 2014
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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rotten social background, social adversity defence, David Bazelon, limiting retributivism, mitigated sentences, Andrew von Hirsch

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Community Punishments in a Rational Society

Scholarship and Criminal Justice Reform (Erik Luna, ed., 2017), Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-05
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 21 Feb 2017
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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Community punishments, alternatives to incarceration, intermediate punishments, mass incarceration, probation

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Remodeling American Sentencing: A Blueprint for Moving Past Mass Incarceration

Criminology & Public Policy (Forthcoming), Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-26
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 21 May 2014
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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mass incarceration, decarceration, sentencing reform, proportionality, parsimony

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Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration

Sandra M. Bucerius & Michael Tonry (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration, Oxford University Press, 2014, Forthcoming, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-53
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 06 Oct 2013
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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race and crime, ethnicity and crime, immigration and crime, inter-generational model, racial disparities, anti-immigrant xenophobia

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Fairness, Equality, Proportionality, and Parsimony: Towards a Comprehensive Jurisprudence of Just Punishment

Penal Censure (Anthony E. Bottoms & Antje Bois-Pedain, eds., Oxford: Hart, Forthcoming), Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-04
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 07 Feb 2017
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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Censure, Retributivism, Monist Theories, Multiple Offense Paradox

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Legal and Ethical Issues in the Prediction of Recidivism

Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-51
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 24 Sep 2013
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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prediction of recidivism, false positives, indirect discrimination

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Federal Sentencing 'Reform' Since 1984: The Awful as Enemy of the Good

44 Crime & Justice, 2015, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-09
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 29 Mar 2015
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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sentencing reform, US Sentencing Commission, federal sentencing guidelines, sentencing commission, sentencing guidelines

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Proportionality Theory in Punishment Philosophy: Fated for the Dustbin of Otiosity?

Of One-eyed and Toothless Miscreants: Making the Punishment Fit the Crime? (Michael Tonry, ed., Oxford University Press, 2019 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 25 Feb 2019
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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proportionality, punishment theory, crime seriousness, punishment severity, cardinal desert, ordinal desert

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Punishment and Human Dignity: Sentencing Principles for Twenty-First Century America

47 Crime and Justice, 2018 Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 27 Apr 2018
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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punishment, human dignity, treatment as an equal, parsimony, Kant, Bentham

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Evidence, Ideology, and Politics in the Making of American Criminal Justice Policy

42 Crime & Justice, Forthcoming , Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-52
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 06 Oct 2013
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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evidence-based policy, research utilization, policing, sentencing, drug policy, guns and violence, rehabilitation

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Fifty Years of American Sentencing Reform — Nine Lessons

Crime and Justice—A Review of Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Dec 2018
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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sentencing reform, sentencing guidelines, federal guidelines, mandatory minimums, parole release, racial disparities

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The Absence of Equality and Human Dignity Values Makes American Sentencing Systems Fundamentally Different from Those in Other Western Countries

45 Crime & Justice, 2016, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-08
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 25 Feb 2016
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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American sentencing, comparative criminal procedure, human dignity, Rechtsstaat, treatment as an equal, equal respect and concern

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Deep Disadvantage, Blameworthiness, and Sentencing

Doing Justice, Preventing Crime (Oxford University Press 2020, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 15 May 2020
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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Making American Sentencing Just, Humane, and Effective

Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, Vol. 45 , Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper 16-32
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 18 Oct 2016
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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mass incarceration, sentencing reform, sentencing guidelines, sentencing guidelines, emergency release

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From Policing to Parole: Reconfiguring American Criminal Justice

Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, Volume 46 (2017 Forthcoming), Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-37
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Nov 2016
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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police legitimacy, prosecutorial abuses, parole release, community corrections, sentencing reform, drug control, mental health treatment

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What Should We Expect from Police Data: Can They Tell Us Whether Crime Rates Rise or Fall?

Cahiers—Police Studies (Forthcoming), Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-36
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 18 Oct 2016
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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police data, crime trends, changing thresholds of tolerance

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Vigilantism and 'Public Confidence': The Pertinence of Public Opinion to Sentencing

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2023/04, To appear in: Sentencing, Public Opinion and Criminal Justice: Essays in Honour of Julian V. Roberts, edited by Marie Manikis and Gabrielle Watson [Hart, 2023]
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 Feb 2023
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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public confidence, vigilantism, Julian V. Roberts, public opinion about sentencing, public knowledge of sentencing

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Why Americans Are a People of Exceptional Violence

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 08, to appear in 2023 in Crime and Justice—A review of Research, Vol. 52
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 12 Sep 2023
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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race relations, racial enmity, racial disparities, frontier values, fatalism, indifference

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Anormative Conceptions of Punishment and Humanitarian Ideals

Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-50
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 24 Sep 2013
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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anormative theories, punishment theory, retributivism, consequentialism, imprisonment rates

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Differences in National Sentencing Systems and the Differences They Make

Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, Vol. 45, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-33
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 18 Oct 2016
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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comparative law, comparative criminal justice, sentencing, prosecutors, plea negotiation

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The Fog Around Cost-Benefit Studies of Crime and Punishment May Finally Be Clearing: Prisoners and Their Kids Suffer Too

Criminology & Public Policy (Forthcoming) , Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-38
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 24 Dec 2015
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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cost-of-crime studies, intangible victim costs, costs of victimization, Mark Cohen

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Fatalism and Indifference—The Influence of the Frontier on American Criminal Justice

Crime and Justice—A Review of Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 05 Oct 2021
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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Doing Justice in Sentencing

Crime and Justice—A Review of Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 05 Oct 2021
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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Solving the Multiple Offense Paradox

More than One Crime: Sentencing the Multiple Offender (Jesper Ryberg, Julian V. Roberts & Jan de Keijser eds., Oxford University Press, 2017 Forthcoming), Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-34
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 18 Oct 2016
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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retributivism, mixed theories of punishment, sentencing multiple offenses, bulk discount, recidivist premium

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The President's Commission and Sentencing, Then and Now

Criminology & Public Policy (2018 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 26 Dec 2017
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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President’s Commission, sentencing reform, sentencing policy, tough on crime, indeterminate sentencing

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Has the Prison a Future?

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2023/02, To appear in: Crime and Justice, Volume 51
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 15 Feb 2023
Michael Tonry and Sandra Bucerius
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law and University of Alberta - Department of Sociology
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prison abolition, prison reform, Norval Morris, Hermann Mannheim, millenarianism

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Punishments, Politics, and Prisons in Western Countries

Forthcoming in: Crime and Justice, Volume 51, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2023/01
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Mar 2023
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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imprisonment rates, crime trends, penal policy, prison abolition

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Doing Injustice: Replacing One 'Arbitrary, Cruel, and Reckless' Sentencing System with Another

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 2023/03, To appear in: Federal Sentencing Reporter, 2023
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 15 Feb 2023
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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sentencing reform, sentencing commissions, hydraulic theory of discretion, Judge Marvin Frankel

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Delegated Vigilantism and Less-than-lethal Lynching in Twenty-first Century America

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Working Paper No. 09, to appear in 2023 in Crime and Justice—A review of Research, Vol. 52
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 Sep 2023
Michael Tonry
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
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vigilantism, delegated vigilantism, lynching, racial disparities, racial enmity, race relations