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Aggravation, Mitigation and Mercy in English Criminal Justice


ISBN13: 9781854319432
ISBN: 1854319434
Published: January 1999
Publisher: Blackstone Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback
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Offering a comment on the justification for sentences, this work refutes jurisprudential attacks on the propriety of mercy, and discusses the shortcomings of the Court of Appeal's approaches to consistency and other principles of sentencing. The appendices list ""guideline cases"" and definitions of ""seriousness"" for the purpose of different statutes.

Subjects:
Criminal Law
Contents:
Justifying penalties: desert
utility
sentencing for what? Aggravation: statutory and miscellaneous aggravation
precautionary detention
non-custodial precautions. Mitigation: statutory and miscellaneous please
harm
youth and old age
mental disorder
revenge and provocation
women's situations
unfashionable mitigations. Some points of principle: the quiddity of mercy
the next steps.