Abstract
ndrew von Hirsch has been such a dominant figure in sentencing olicy that a new book by him is reason to take note. Censure and Sanctions is his third volume on the topic in three decades,: and although the book was prompted in part by passage of England's Criminal Justice Act, 1991, it will interest a broad international audience since yon Hirsch addresses a "set of questions" concerning proportionality. Five are of particular interest to him: censure and the rationale for proportionality, anchoring the penalty scale, hybrid models, intermediate punishments, and the politics of desert theory. 2 While his discussion advances desert theory, its additional value is that in a single slim volume we have a iucid depiction of the strengths and (to this reviewer, at least) the clear limitations of that theory. In this review : would like to summarize his thinking on each of the five questions and conclude by considering a sixth question as well.
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