Custodial sentencing

... CHAPTER 9 Custodial sentencing The aim of this chapter is to examine the law and practice relating to custodial sentences. Imprisonment involves deprivation ... the use of custody is one which argues for the use of non -custodial sentences instead of custodial ones, and which argues for shorter custodial sentences instead of longer ones. The UN declaration ... 471, Godfrey (1993) 1...

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... CHAPTER 10 Non -custodial sentencing In Chapter 9 the close connection between custodial and non -custodial sentencing was often evident, particularly when discussing ... success. Simply widening the range of available non -custodial sentences did little to deflect courts from their use of custodial sentences. Changes in sentencing practice did take place, but these did ... nothin...

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... totality principle 248 8.5 Multiple offenders and proportionality 254 9 Custodial sentencing 255 9.1 The state of the prisons 255 98 Sentencing aims, principles and policies offender, on the basis that ... individual sentencing decisions. But Morris and Tonry decry this as producing ‘equality of misery’, and advocate the principle of parsimony in individual sentencing decisions too....

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... to establish a coherent sentencing structure. After a series of further statutes in the 1990s, Parliament consolidated sentencing law in the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) (PCCS) Act 2000. ... girls, from 2 per cent to 7 per cent over the decade. What has been the effect of these sentencing patterns on the custodial popu- lation? Table 7 shows the average daily population of p...

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... Riley (1985). 3.3 The rationales of sentencing 77 strategy with publicity and attempts to change people’s attitudes is likely to be more effective than either sentencing or enforcement changes ... incapacitative sentencing strategies in the face of poor penological prospects. 65 Apart from the empirical objections, there is also a principled objection to inca- pacitative sentencing, wh...

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... leadership on criminal justicepolicy in general and sentencing policy in particular. 13.1 The responsibility of sentencing There is no doubt that the task of sentencing imposes a great burden on magistrates and ... prospects in practice. This links to the third issue – the new sentencing guideline mechanism and its ability to ensure that the new sentencing framework is translated fa...

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... CHAPTER 2 Sentencing and the constitution Majorchangesin the sentencing eld in recentyearshave raised several questions ofa constitutional nature. To what extent does sentencing policy ... beyond which the legislature may not go when legislating on sentencing? Where do new bodies such as the Sentencing Advisory Panel and the Sentencing Guidelines Council fit into the constitutional ....

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... CHAPTER 12 Special sentencing powers This chapter deals with three sets of sentencing powers for particular groups of offender. It begins with the sentencing of young offenders under ... we will consider the justifications for separate sentencing powers, and the extent to which the rationale for special powers carries through into sentencing practice. 12.1 Young offenders For almost...

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