Mitigation and Aggravation at Sentencing (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Roberts, Julian V.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This innovative volume explores a fundamental issue in the field of sentencing: the factors which make a sentence more or less severe. All sentencing systems allow courts discretion to consider mitigating and aggravating factors, and many legislatures have placed a number of such factors on a statutory footing. Yet many questions remain regarding the theory and practice of mitigation and aggravation. Drawing on legal and sociological perspectives and examining mitigation and aggravation in various jurisdictions, the essays provide practical illustrations of specific factors as well as theoretical justifications. After the foreword by Andrew von Hirsch, a number of contributors address broad conceptual issues raised at sentencing. These contributions are followed by several empirical chapters including an exploration of personal mitigation in English courts. The authors are leading scholars from a range of common law jurisdictions including England and Wales, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139152761
• Artikelnr.: 49266787

Inhaltsangabe

1. Exploring aggravation and mitigation at sentencing Julian Roberts; 2.
Re-evaluating the justifications for aggravation and mitigation at
sentencing Andrew Ashworth; 3. The search for principles of mitigation:
integrating cultural demands Allan Manson; 4. Personal mitigation at
sentencing and assumptions about offending and desistance Joanna Shapland;
5. Intoxication as a sentencing factor: mitigating or aggravating? Nicola
Padfield; 6. Beyond the partial excuse: Australasian approaches to
provocation as a sentencing factor Arie Freiberg and Felicity Stewart; 7.
Equality before the law: racial and social background factors as sources of
mitigation at sentencing Kate Warner; 8. Personal mitigation: an empirical
analysis in England and Wales Jessica Jacobson and Mike Hough; 9. Exploring
public attitudes to sentencing factors in England and Wales Julian Roberts
and Mike Hough; 10. The pernicious impact of perceived public opinion on
sentencing: findings from an empirical study of the public's approach to
personal mitigation Austin Lovegrove; 11. Addressing problematic sentencing
factors in the development of guidelines Warren Young and Andrea King; 12.
Proof of aggravating and mitigating facts at sentencing Kevin Reitz; 13.
Mitigation in federal sentencing in the United States Will Berry; 14. The
discretionary effect of mitigating and aggravating factors: a South African
case study Stephan Terblanche.