Sentencing
- Created by: evemorrison
- Created on: 26-11-18 08:26
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- Sentencing
- Aims of sentencing
- Criminal Justice Act 2003
- All but denunciation
- Retribution
- Denunciation
- Deterrence
- General
- Prevent others from offending
- Individual
- Stop offender from reoffending
- General
- Incapacitation
- Protect the public from offender
- Rehabilitation
- Teach offender to use time more productively
- Work experience
- Education
- Addiction treatment
- Teach offender to use time more productively
- Reparation
- Repair what was put wrong
- Criminal Justice Act 2003
- Types of punishment
- Custodial
- Fixed Term Sentence
- Sentenced to fixzed time in prison
- Offender serves half the time then can be released on license
- Discretionary Life Sentence
- Lenient sentence for serious crime
- e.g. offender spends weekends in prison
- Lenient sentence for serious crime
- Mandatory Life Sentence
- Most serious
- Starting point is 30, can go up or down by 15 years
- Extended Sentence
- Serious violent offenders
- No early release
- Heavily monitored on release
- Minimum Sentence
- Minimum period before eligible for parole in indeterminate sentence
- Suspended Sentence
- Sentenced to time in prison; don't have to serve unless they re-offend
- Home Detention Curfew
- Offender electronically tagged
- Up to 6 months
- Ordered to remain at fixed address for up to 12 hours in a 24 hour period
- Indeterminate Sentence
- Time in prison dependent on the inmate's conduct
- Fixed Term Sentence
- Fine
- Community
- Discharge
- Conditional Discharge
- Used by Mags for first time offenders
- More serious consequences if they re-offend
- Absolute discharge
- No penalty, guilty but morally blameless
- Conditional Discharge
- Custodial
- Aims of sentencing
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