This hardback book is in very good condition for an ex-library book. The dust jacket is present and in very good condition, covered by a light plastic cover with a little wear and glue remains from a label at the top of the front. The page edges have a library stamp on the top, bottom and side, as well as some other marks. Internally there is a neat library plate on the front free endpaper, but otherwise the pages are in very good condition - clean, tight and unmarked. Sentencing is not a neutral or mechanical act; it is a human process, highly charged affectively and motivationally. Sentencing decisions take place in a social environment of laws, facts, ideas, and people. This study of sentencing behaviour is primarily concerned with the mental processes involved in decision-making. It is based on intensive interviews and on measures of the information-processing ability of seventy-one full-time judges in Ontario. The work covers such topics as: problems of sentencing (particularly