Mitigation and Aggravation at Sentencing
«'… a tremendously valuable contribution to our understanding of the poorly defined factors which may suggest mitigation or aggravation at sentencing … it represents a signal addition to one's law library …' Criminal Law Journal»
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. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cambridge University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781107659988
- Utgivelsesår
- 2014
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«'… a tremendously valuable contribution to our understanding of the poorly defined factors which may suggest mitigation or aggravation at sentencing … it represents a signal addition to one's law library …' Criminal Law Journal»
«'… offer[s] a valuable contribution to our thinking about the role of mitigation and aggravation, simultaneously demonstrating the need for guidance whilst offering a cautionary tale about the dangers of prescribing aggravating factors and leaving the relevance of personal mitigation ill-defined.' Jonathan Bild, The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice»
«'Yet another volume on sentencing by the prolific Canadian criminologist is both timely and potentially very useful to the practising criminal lawyers.' Criminal Law Quarterly»