Australian sentencing : principles and practice /
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| Author / Creator: | Edney, Richard. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2007. |
| Description: | xxxvii, 392 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- Australia. Prison sentences. Sentences (Criminal procedure) Australia. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6624548 |
Table of Contents:
- Part A.
- 1. The nature of sentencing and theories of punishment
- 2. Plucking figures from the air: the instinctive synthesis
- 3. The objectives that are attainable through sentencing
- 4. High Court sentencing jurisprudence
- Part B.
- 5. The principle of proportionality
- 6. Aggravating factors
- 7. Mitigating considerations
- 8. The relevance of a guilty plea to sentence
- 9. The relevance of prior criminality
- 10. Aboriginality
- Part C.
- 11. The nature of criminal sanctions
- 12. Imprisonment
- 13. Intermediate sanctions
- 14. Discharges and bonds, fines and disqualifications
- Part D.
- 15. The way forward - strategic sentencing
