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.
| ISBN: | 9780521197809 |
| Publication date: | 25th August 2011 |
| Author: | Julian V Roberts |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 285 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society |
| Genres: |
Criminal justice law |
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.
Mitigation and Aggravation at Sentencing features in the following genres: Criminal justice law, Crime and criminology, Law, Sentencing and punishment
Mitigation and Aggravation at Sentencing is available in Hardback
Mitigation and Aggravation at Sentencing was written by Julian V Roberts and published by Cambridge University Press
Mitigation and Aggravation at Sentencing has 285 pages
Yes it is part of Cambridge Studies in Law and Society series
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