A traditional assumption in retributivist thinking is the view that an offender's desert determined exclusively on basis of gravity crime committed. However, this has recently been challenged. Netanel Dagan and Julian Roberts have advocated a dynamic theory desert, or what they refer to as “the censure model.” According model, certain post-sentencing reactions offender should be taken into acco...

The U.S. Supreme Court, in Furman v. Georgia (1972), held that the death penalty is constitutional only when applied on an individualized basis. The resultant changes in the laws in death penalty states fostered the involvement of psychiatric and psychologic expert witnesses at the sentencing phase of the trial, to testify on two major issues: (1) the mitigating factor of a defendant's abnormal...

‘Mercy Killing’ Cases Author Katrine Del Villar, Lindy Willmott and Ben P White This article examines the sentencing remarks in all publicly reported Australian cases on assisted suicide mercy killing since 1980. Themes emerging from judicial reasons for confirm that many traditional aims of – such as specific deterrence, retribution or rehabilitation are inapposite where relatives friends act ...

ABSTRACTImprisonment is a criminal sanction that eliminates the freedom of perpetrators with aim providing deterrent effect so as not to commit acts and improve behavior in order become better human beings. In this study, problems were formulated regarding effectiveness social work sanctions substitute for imprisonment from perspective sentencing purposes. This study uses normative juridical ap...