Crown appeals against sentence
By: Georgia Brignell, Hugh Donnelly
Contributors: Donnelly, Hugh; Judicial Commission of New South Wales
Series: Monograph series / Judical Commission of New South Wales -- 27, June 2005; Monograph series (Judicial Commission of New South Wales) -- no. 27
Publisher: Judicial Commission of New South Wales
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Appellate procedure; New South Wales. Court of Criminal Appeal
Description: "This study selected Crown appeals for the offences of murder, manslaughter, malicious wounding with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm, aggravated sexual assault and armed robbery where the court re-sentenced. The analysis revealed that the first instance sentences appealed by the Crown were sometimes above the median of the population of sentences for a given offence. Similarly, the substituted sentences imposed by the Court of Criminal Appeal frequently fell above the median of the population of sentences. These findings emphasise the complexity of sentencing and the limitations of relying heavily upon statistical concepts such as "population", "average" and "medians" in explaining sentencing results."--p. vii.
Notes: 7er.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available in an electronic version via the Internet. Address as of 23/9/2005: http://www.judcom.nsw.gov.au/monograph27/mono27.pdf