Michael H. Tonry, born in 1945, is an American legal scholar who holds the McKnight Presidential Professorship of Criminal Law and Policy at the University of Minnesota Law School and directs the university's Institute on Crime and Public Policy. He is widely regarded as a leading authority on crime policy, publishing extensively on incarceration rates and sentencing practices, including research challenging the effectiveness of mandatory minimum sentences and examining racial disparities in sentencing outcomes. He has served as president of both the American Society of Criminology and the European Society of Criminology, and has edited the annual review series Crime and Justice since 1977.
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BirthplaceMartinsburg, West Virginia 1 Connections
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Michael Tonry is a leading contemporary sentencing scholar who has written extensively on United States mass incarceration and its racial disparities, notably in Punishing Race (2011).
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1. Wikipedia: Michael Tonry
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1945-06-09
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Martinsburg, West Virginia, U.S.
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an American criminologist
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