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Penal policy is complex. By adding fines, jails, probation, and parole into the sanctioning mix, some of the contributors in this volume show that the United States is an even greater outlier in its harshness of penal sanctioning than is generally recognized. Other contributors, pursuing fine-grained analyses of variations among states and counties, reveal that many local and state jurisdictions in the United States compare favorably with the most progressive Western European countries. This is an important book that should be widely read and discussed. --Malcolm M. Feeley, Claire Sanders Clements Professor of Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley School of Law Serious scholars of penal policy must read Kevin Reitz's American Exceptionalism in Crime and Punishment. By now, we all know that America overpunishes. But many fundamental questions have remained unanswered -'What explains these punitive policies? Are we only an outlier in incarceration, or are probation, parole, financial penalties, crime rates, collateral sanctions, and the death penalty also implicated?' Now we have answers. Reitz, the nation's premier sentencing scholar, has assembled eleven original essays from the most distinguished scholars, and each essay is serious scholarship at its best-deeply empirical, but understandable for the lay reader. This book will deepen our understanding of America's mass incarceration disaster, and could serve as a rallying cry for authentic criminal justice reform. --Joan Petersilia, Aldebert H. Sweet Professor of Law, Stanford Law School American Exceptionalism in Crime and Punishment breaks important new ground in the field of crime and punishment. A stellar group of authors explore aspects of American exceptionalism that have so far been overlooked by scholars. The volume broadens the scope of American exceptionalism studies to include sanctions beyond incarceration and the death penalty; as such it will inform and guide the discourse and scholarship for years to come. --Julian V. Roberts, Professor of Criminology, University of Oxford

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Kevin R. Reitz is James Annenberg La Vea Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at the University of Minnesota. He has written about sentencing law, policy, and procedure, and the American criminal justice system for more than 25 years. Over that time, he has worked with criminal justice agencies in many states, local governments, and other countries. He served as lead Reporter for the American Law Institute's Model Penal Code: Sentencing (final approval, 2017).

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