Mitigation and aggravation at sentencing / (Record no. 11938)
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| fixed length control field | 02166cam a2200181 a 4500 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780521197809 (hardback) |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0521197805 (hardback) |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 5m5873m57 |
| Item number | 0814595 |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Mitigation and aggravation at sentencing / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | edited by Julian V. Roberts |
| Copyright Date | |
| Place of publication | Cambridge ; |
| -- | New York : |
| Name of publisher | Cambridge University Press, |
| Year of publication or production | 2011 |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xvii, 285 pages ; |
| SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Cambridge studies in law and society |
| SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "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"-- |
| SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "Explicit guidance for sentencing decisions, and an explicit rationale to guide them, has been a notable feature of sentence-reform efforts over recent decades. In England and Wales, a system of sentencing guidelines is in place, based on statutory standards and guidelines provided by the Sentencing Council. Meanwhile, an extensive literature on sentencing theory has developed - for example, that based on notions of desert and proportionate sanctions, or on notions of "limiting retributivism" (see von Hirsch and Ashworth 2005FWD-003, chs. 9 and appendix 2)"-- |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Sentences (Criminal procedure) |
| ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Roberts, Julian V |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| FACULTY OF LAW LIBRARY | FACULTY OF LAW LIBRARY | 07/17/2025 | KM587 .M57 2011 | 0028675 | Books |
| FACULTY OF LAW LIBRARY | FACULTY OF LAW LIBRARY | 07/21/2025 | KM587 .M57 2011 | 0028116 | Books |