Psychopathic disorders are taking an important part in judge sentencing, especially in Canada. First, we will see how this phenomenon can be illustrated by the high proportion of psychopath offenders incarcerated in North American prisons. Many decisions in Canadians courtrooms seem to point out that psychopathy is often used as a strong argument by the judges to preserve public safety. The fac...

Teen Courts provide a forum in which juvenile offenders are sentenced by their peers. This system, based on principles of restorative justice, serves as an alternative to the traditional juvenile justice system. Sentencing options typically include restitution, community service, jury duty, apologies, attendance at educational workshops, and tours of correctional facilities. Previous research h...

The Court of Appeal has signalled its intention to review guideline judgment for sexual violation sentencing, R v AM, which includes guidance on when sentencing judges should treat prior consensual sex as mitigating. argument this article makes is that the new remove a mitigating factor two reasons. first treating activity before embeds an outdated idea what constitutes "real rape" and fails re...

INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................... 573 I. PERSISTENT RACE-BASED DEATH SENTENCING IN THE “MODERN ERA” OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ......................................... 575 II. RACE-BASED PUNITIVENESS: SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL REALITIES ...... 587 III. CLOSING THE GAP: RACIALLY FAIR OR UNFIXABLE? ......................... 595 CONCLUSIO...

The recent forensic psychiatry literature has focused on such areas as compentency to stand trial and the insanity plea. Very little attention has been given to the pre-sentence psychiatric evaluation particularly from a research point of view. Such information as demographic data on the defendants examined and the role the psychiatric report plays in the sentencing process is both unclear and ...

* The views expressed in this article are those of the authors alone and do not reflect the official position of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Lowenkamp specifically advises against using the PCRA to inform front-end sentencing decisions or back-end decisions about release without first conducting research on its use in these contexts, given that the PCRA was not designed for th...