A Sentencing Exception? Changing Sentencing Policy in Scotland

Some Factors in Sentencing Policy

Summary. Sentencing law and sentencing decision making

The initial context of this research – judicial cooperation with regard to consistency in sentencing This dissertation is part of a research project in which the phenomenon of judicial cooperation in several areas of the law has been taken as a starting point. The concept of judicial cooperation describes informal structures and products thereof of judicial policymaking for the purpose of the s...

Mandatory Sentencing

Adam Graycar Director There is a widely held belief that the imposition of a mandatory sentence for a second or third offence will have a significant deterrent effect on that individual and will send a message to potential offenders. Advocates argue that it will bring consistency in sentencing and appease public concern about crime and punishment. This proposition has been debated vigorously in...

Alternative Sentencing : Statement Prepared for the United States Sentencing Commission

I appreciate the opportunity to testify before the United States Sentencing Commission regarding alternatives to incarceration. My remarks are intended as practical observations based on: (a) experience gained in my current position as Director of a community corrections program that provides reentry services to persons formerly incarcerated in Federal prisons, and that also serves as an altern...

Consistency in Sentencing

INTRODUCTION Ireland has an individualised system of sentencing in which judges exercise a relatively broad sentencing discretion. Since the foundation of the State in 1922 few attempts have been made to change or challenge the nature of the Irish sentencing system. This lack of reform, however, does not necessarily reflect widespread satisfaction with the system as a whole. Indeed, a recurrent...