Criminal sanctions involve the deliberate infliction of pain on
offenders. Yet sentencing is one ... more Criminal sanctions involve the deliberate infliction of pain on offenders. Yet sentencing is one of the least developed and least progressive practices in our society. Sentencing systems in the US have not been reformed in response to technological advances and the effects of these changes - in particular, the Internet - on human behavior and society. Recently, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the internet needs to be regulated as a utility. Like the removal of other utilities, denial of computer access therefore constitutes a deprivation to most people. Yet prisoners are reflexively denied computer and internet access without any regard to the newfound hardship that this imposes on them. This Article sets forth a number of reform proposals to sentencing law and practice that would properly reflect the social revolution caused by the internet. The reforms will integrate internet access into the penal process and to make sentencing fairer and more efficient, while also ensuring that the key objectives of sentencing in the form of community protection and proportionate punishment are enhanced.
Criminal sanctions involve the deliberate infliction of pain on
offenders. Yet sentencing is one ... more Criminal sanctions involve the deliberate infliction of pain on offenders. Yet sentencing is one of the least developed and least progressive practices in our society. Sentencing systems in the US have not been reformed in response to technological advances and the effects of these changes - in particular, the Internet - on human behavior and society. Recently, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the internet needs to be regulated as a utility. Like the removal of other utilities, denial of computer access therefore constitutes a deprivation to most people. Yet prisoners are reflexively denied computer and internet access without any regard to the newfound hardship that this imposes on them. This Article sets forth a number of reform proposals to sentencing law and practice that would properly reflect the social revolution caused by the internet. The reforms will integrate internet access into the penal process and to make sentencing fairer and more efficient, while also ensuring that the key objectives of sentencing in the form of community protection and proportionate punishment are enhanced.
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offenders. Yet sentencing is one of the least developed and least progressive practices in our society. Sentencing systems in the US have not been reformed in response to technological advances and the effects of these changes - in particular, the Internet - on human behavior and society.
Recently, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the internet needs to be regulated as a utility. Like the removal of other utilities, denial of computer access therefore constitutes a deprivation to most people.
Yet prisoners are reflexively denied computer and internet access without any
regard to the newfound hardship that this imposes on them.
This Article sets forth a number of reform proposals to sentencing law and practice that would properly reflect the social revolution caused by the internet. The reforms will integrate internet access into the penal process and to make sentencing fairer and more efficient, while also ensuring that the key objectives of sentencing in the form of community protection and proportionate punishment are enhanced.
offenders. Yet sentencing is one of the least developed and least progressive practices in our society. Sentencing systems in the US have not been reformed in response to technological advances and the effects of these changes - in particular, the Internet - on human behavior and society.
Recently, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the internet needs to be regulated as a utility. Like the removal of other utilities, denial of computer access therefore constitutes a deprivation to most people.
Yet prisoners are reflexively denied computer and internet access without any
regard to the newfound hardship that this imposes on them.
This Article sets forth a number of reform proposals to sentencing law and practice that would properly reflect the social revolution caused by the internet. The reforms will integrate internet access into the penal process and to make sentencing fairer and more efficient, while also ensuring that the key objectives of sentencing in the form of community protection and proportionate punishment are enhanced.