Sentencing

sentencing notes

• the main aim is to rehabilitate young offenders
• agrivating factors-things that make a sentence worsee.g.  previous convictions, use of a weapon or vunerable person
• mitigating factors- mkae the sentence less serious e.g. self defence, no previous convictions, pleaded guilty or helped the police
• section 142 of criminal justice act deals with young ofenders
• if plead guilty at the earliest oppertunity then reduces the sentence by upto 30%
• if plead gulity midway through trails then only reduced by 10 %
• the 5 main aims of sentencing are:retribution(punishment), reparation, rehabilitaion, detterance, protection of the public.
• punishment is based on proprtionality- punishment should fit the crime
• three types of offence-summary, indictable and triable ethier way
• custodial sentence is the ultimate way to pretect the public
• ADULTS
• 2 types of discharge…