Aggravation, Mitigation, and Mercy in English Criminal Justice
Author: Nigel Walker
Publisher: Blackstone Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781854319432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering a comment on the justification for sentences, this work refutes jurisprudential attacks on the propriety of mercy, and discusses the shortcomings of the Court of Appeal's approaches to consistency and other principles of sentencing. The appendices list "guideline cases" and definitions of "seriousness" for the purpose of different statutes.