Deserved Criminal Sentences

1. Introduction: The Emergence of the Proportionate Sentence 2. Sentence Proportionality Sketched Briefly 3. Why Should the Criminal Sanction Exist? 4. Why Punish Proportionately? 5. Ordinal and Cardinal Proportionality 6. Seriousness, Severity

Andreas von Hirsch is Emeritus Honorary Professor of Penal Theory and Penal Law at the University of Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of Penal Theory at the Law Faculty, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. Much of his earlier writing has appeared under