Title: Aggravation, mitigation, and mercy in English criminal justice /
Authors: Walker, Nigel.
Date: 1999
Publisher: Blackstone,
Physical description: xxvii, 270 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: K
Abstract: Offering 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.
Contents: Pt. I. Justifying Penalties -- Ch. 1. Desert -- Ch. 2. Utility -- Ch. 3. Sentencing for What? -- Pt. II. Aggravation -- Ch. 4. Statutory and Miscellaneous Aggravation -- Ch. 5. Precautionary Detention -- Ch. 6. Non-custodial Precautions -- Pt. III. Mitigation -- Ch. 7. Statutory and Miscellaneous Pleas -- Ch. 8. Harm -- Ch. 9. Youth and Old Age -- Ch. 10. Mental Disorder -- Ch. 11. Revenge and Provocation -- Ch. 12. Women's Situations -- Ch. 13. Unfashionable Mitigations -- Pt. IV. Some Points of Principle -- Ch. 14. The Quiddity of Mercy -- Ch. 15. The Next Step -- App. A. Serious Offences -- App. B. Guideline Cases.
Subject headings (LCSH): Aggravating circumstances--Great Britain.; Criminal justice, Administration of--Great Britain.; Extenuating circumstances--Great Britain.; Law and ethics.; Punishment--Great Britain; Sentences (Criminal procedure)--Great Britain.