Aggravation, mitigation, and mercy in English criminal justice
By: Nigel Walker.
Publisher: Blackstone
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- Great Britain.; Extenuating circumstances -- Great Britain.; Aggravating circumstances -- Great Britain.; Punishment -- Great Britain.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-257) and index.