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Do Intoxicated Offenders Deserve Harsher Sentences? Questioning Veritas in Vino

open access: yesJournal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Criminal courts increasingly treat intoxication as an aggravating rather than a mitigating factor in sentencing. This shift, seen in Australian law and other jurisdictions, raises the prospect of unjust outcomes. We examine this trend through the lens of desert‐based justifications for punishment, setting aside questions of deterrence and ...
Mary Jean Walker, Daniel B. Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

Unchained voices: Exploring incarcerated women's pathways to restorative justice

open access: yesLegal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Restorative justice (RJ) is an approach to justice that focuses on repairing the harm caused by criminal offences through dialogue, accountability and reparation. Despite its growing recognition, the implementation of RJ programmes within prison settings remains limited, particularly in women's prisons.
Inbal Peleg‐Koriat   +1 more
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Culpable crimes

open access: yes, 2011
In culpable crimes, it is necessary to carefully distinguish actual or potential knowledge of the danger that the conduct creates for legal rights, from abstract knowledge of the duty of care. Knowledge of the danger caused is effective in conscious or represented guilt, but is potential in unconscious or unrepresented guilt.
openaire   +1 more source

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