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Deserved criminal sentences : an overview /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Von Hirsch, Andrew (Author)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the emergence of the proportionate sentence
  • Sentence proportionality sketched briefly
  • Why should the criminal sanction exist?
  • Why punish proportionately?
  • Ordinal and cardinal proportionality
  • Seriousness, severity and the living-standard
  • The role of previous convictions
  • Proportionate non-custodial sanctions
  • A "modified" desert model?
  • The politics of the desert model
  • Proportionate sentences for juveniles
  • Appendix: the desert model's evolution : a brief chronology.