Download or read book Sentencing guidelines and Parliament written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Justice Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parliament and the judiciary have different and complementary roles in determining sentencing; Parliament sets the overall legislative framework, sentencers determine the individual sentence in a particular case. In the middle sit sentencing guidelines. The Justice Committee provides a form of parliamentary comment on these by considering draft sentencing guidelines. This is an area that has recently been subject to debate in terms of how to enhance democratic engagement within the constitutional framework. The Committee's work with sentencing guidelines suggests that more attention needs to be paid to how sentencing contributes to public confidence in the criminal justice system and to the costs of different sentences and their relative effectiveness in achieving the purposes of sentencing. These areas will be the priorities for the Committee's scrutiny of sentencing guidelines, and scrutiny of criminal justice policy more broadly. The danger of a sentencing policy based on misconceptions about what the public wants is that over the longer term resources will be diverted away from a sentencing framework that is effective in reducing re-offending, creating more victims of crime. There are still fundamental questions to be answered in discerning what works in achieving an effective sentencing framework.
Download or read book Sentencing Guidelines written by Andrew Ashworth and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics of criminal sentencing has recently crystallised around the issue of whether and how a system of structured sentencing should inform judicial approaches to punishing criminals. Increasingly, structured sentencing guidelines are being introduce to frame judicial discretion. This volume is the first to examine the experience in England and Wales in the light of international developments. This collection of essays begins with a clear and concise history of the guidelines as well as a description of how they function. Topics addressed include the effect of guidelines on judicial practice, the role of public opinion in developing sentencing guidelines, the role of the crime victim in sentencing guidelines, and the use of guidelines by practicing barristers. In addition, the international dimension offers a comparative perspective: the English guidelines are explored by leading academics from the United States and New Zealand. Although there is a vast literature on sentencing guidelines across the United States, the English guidelines have attracted almost no attention from scholars. As other jurisdictions look to introduce more structure to sentencing, the English scheme offers a real alternative to current US schemes. Contributors include practicing lawyers, legal and socio-legal academics, and also scholars from several other countries including New Zealand and the United States, providing a multidisciplinary and cross-jurisdictional approach to sentencing. This book will be of interest to academics from law, sociology and criminology, legal practitioners, and indeed anyone else with an interest in sentencing, around the world.
Download or read book Home Affairs Select Committee Draft Sentencing Guidelines 1 and 2 Home Affairs Select Committee Fifth Report with Proceedings and Appendices written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sentencing Guidelines written by Andrew Ashworth and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do sentencing guidelines affect judicial practice? Can public opinion influence the development of these guidelines and what role does the victim have? How do barristers use the guidelines in practice? These questions and more are addressed in this volume examining the English sentencing guidelines and how they function.
Download or read book Sentencing Guidelines written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Draft sentencing guideline written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Justice Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee considers that the "Overarching principles - sentencing youths" is a crucial sentencing guideline. It fills a critical gap, setting out for youth courts the basis upon which they should sentence offenders under the age of 18 - guidance which the youth courts have not previously had. The Committee's response highlights the key issues raised in evidence to it, for example, the apparent inconsistency in approaches to sentencing children, and a varied understanding among sentencers of the concept that custody should only ever be a "sentence of last resort" for young people. The Committee also stresses that courts should have access to information about a young offender's mental health, learning difficulties and communication problems to enable the most appropriate sentence to be imposed. The evidence the Committee took on this draft sentencing guideline highlighted key areas in relation to youth justice deserving of further scrutiny, such as the use of remand and provisions for offenders aged 18-24, and it will consider how to pursue these areas further in its work.
Download or read book Sentencing Guidelines and Policy Statements Incorporating Technical Clarifying and Conforming Amendments Submitted to Congress May 1 1987 Dissenting View of Commissioner Paul H Robinson on the Promulgation of Sentencing Guidelines by the United States Sentencing Commission May 1 1987 Preliminary Observations of the Commission on Commissioner Robinson s Dissent May 1 1987 written by United States Sentencing Commission and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards effective sentencing written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Select Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains oral evidence given in relation to the Committee's inquiry into sentencing policy by Lord Woolf, the former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. It also includes written evidence submitted by a range of organisations including the Home Office, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, the Crown Prosecution Service, Criminal Bar Association, the Howard League for Penal Reform, JUSTICE, the Parole Board, the Police Federation, the Prison Governors' Association, the Prison Reform Trust, and the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales.
Download or read book Government Response to the Justice Select Committee s Report written by Great Britain: Ministry of Justice and published by . This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dated September 2009. Government response to Justice Committee's 6th report session 2008-09 (HC 715, ISBN 9780215532657)
Download or read book The Federal Sentencing Guidelines Executive summary written by United States Sentencing Commission and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sentencing in the Age of Information written by Katja Franko Aas and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying media and communication studies to sentencing and penal culture, Franko Aas offers a lucid and innovative account of how punishment is adjusting to a new cultural climate.
Download or read book House of Commons Home Affairs Committee Sentencing Guidelines Oral Evidence written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Draft Sentencing Guidelines written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-06-28 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic violence is a social problem of enormous proportion. In 2000 there were an estimated 12.9 million incidents, and 1.2 million women were affected by stalking. It accounts for a quarter of all violent crime. Victims and children suffer with physical and psychological abuse. The costs to society are high, recently estimated as amounting to £3.1 billion for services for survivors: including absence from employment, medical, psychiatric and addiction treatment, housing and other social and legal assistance. The loss to the economy has been estimated at £2.7 billion per year. Two draft guidelines on domestic violence were published by the Sentencing Guidelines Council on 11 April 2006. Overarching Principles: Domestic Violence deals with the general principles. There is no specific offence of domestic violence, and conduct amounting to domestic violence can be covered by a wide range of offences: not only assaults, but criminal damage, harassment, threats to injure or kill, false imprisonment, and sexual offences. The guidelines define domestic violence, and discuss assessing seriousness, aggravating and mitigating factors, and the wishes and interests of victims and children. Breach of a Protective Order, the second draft guideline, addresses breaches of restraining or non-molestation orders imposed in order to prevent harassment or fear of violence, or the molestation of others. The Committee endorses the general approach in these guidelines, particularly the explicit recognition that courts should treat domestic violence no less seriously than other cases of violent crime. The Committee makes a number of recommendations for amendments to the guidelines.
Download or read book Towards Effective Sentencing written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Justice Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report evaluates the extent to which the provision s of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 to provide overall structure and clarity to sentencing, by reserving prison for the most dangerous offenders and by making effective provision to deal with other offenders through community sentence, have been implemented, and its impact on sentencing. The Committee is concerned that the Government failed to engage in any adequate resource and capacity planning for the coming into effect of the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP). This new sentence was not accompanied by the level of custodial resources required to make it work. Meanwhile, the desired shift to community penalties where public safety is not at issue has not occurred to the extent that was hoped. Resources are a fundamental issue in delivering an effective sentencing strategy. So too is public confidence in the criminal justice system. The Government has failed to provide the information and leadership required to facilitate an informed public debate, while the media climate for such debate often depends on isolated discussion of particular cases which inhibits calm consideration. While the Government accepted the recommendations of Lord Carter's review of prisons, the Committee found his report deeply unimpressive, as it was not evidence based and was a missed opportunity. It should have considered how to develop new ideas to address the problems with sentencing and provision of custodial and non-custodial facilities in England and Wales. The Government has not learnt vital lessons from past experience. It needs to adopt a strategic approach to sentencing. The Committee make a series of detailed recommendations around these issues in order to make further progress towards effective sentencing.
Download or read book Prescription for Justice written by Jack M. Kress and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sentencing Guidelines written by Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Justice Committee and published by . This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sentencing Guidelines : Oral evidence, 22 January 2008
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