Australian sentencing : principles and practice /

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Author / Creator:Edney, Richard.
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2007.
Description:xxxvii, 392 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6624548
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Other authors / contributors:Bagaric, Mirko.
ISBN:9780521689298 (pbk.)
0521689295 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes index.
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