Exploring sentencing practice in England and Wales
By: [edited by] Julian V. Roberts, Professor of Criminology, University of Oxford, UK
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [UK]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781137390394
Subjects: Sentences (Criminal procedure); LAW / Criminal Law / General; LAW / Criminal Law / Sentencing; LAW / Gender & the Law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology
Description: "How are offenders sentenced in England and Wales? This is the first volume to analyse the empirical and normative aspects of sentencing in the UK, exploring a range of important issues including the role of previous convictions, sentencing female offenders, offender remorse and the sentencing of offenders convicted of multiple crimes. This unique collection reveals how courts in this jurisdiction sentence offenders, providing a portrait of sentencing trends in the Magistrates and Crown courts from 1996 to the present day. Drawing from a new source of data from the Crown courts, original insights are derived about the way that offenders are punished.With expert contributions from scholars in Criminal Justice and Law, this authoritative account presents the latest data trends relating to sentencing, as well as conclusions for policy and practice.  "--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Foreword; Paul Wiles; title: 1. Sentencing Research and Sentencing Statistics; Julian V. Roberts and Mike Hough; title: 2. Understanding Sentencing: Approaches to Research; Mandeep Dhami and Ian Belton; title: 3. Overview of Sentencing Patterns and Historical Trends in Sentencing; Julian Roberts and Keir Rogers; title: 4. Public Knowledge of Sentencing Practices; Martina Feilzer; title: 5. Consistency in England and Wales: New Findings from the CCSS; J. Pina-Sánchez; title: 6. Sentencing Female Offenders; Carol Hedderman and Rebecca Barnes; title: 7. Women and Sentencing; Loraine Gelsthorpe and Gillian Sharpe; title: 8. Sentencing and Dependents: Motherhood as Mitigation; Shona Minson; title: 9. The Role of Previous Convictions at Sentencing; Julian Roberts and J. Pina-Sánchez; title: 10. More than a Single Crime: Sentencing for Multiple Offences; Natalia Vibla; title: 11. Mitigating Factors at Sentencing; Hannah Maslen; title: 12. Sentencing for Burglary; Keir Irwin Rogers and Thomas W. Perry; title: 13. Sentencing Murder: Lessons from Empirical Research; Barry Mitchell and Julian Roberts; title: 14. Sentencing Young Offenders and Young Adults; Max Lowenstein.