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Judicial Narratives and ‘Reality’: A Thematic Analysis of References to Family Violence in Sentencing Remarks for the Offence of Threat to Kill

Laws
For domestic and family violence (‘DFV’) offences, sentencing remarks present a unique opportunity for dialogue between the Court, the offender, the victim-survivor, and the public.
Jonathan Pears, Patricia Easteal
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Sentencing recommendations are insensitive to juvenile offender’s age and maturation

Cogent Social Sciences, 2016
Research on perceptions of juvenile criminals has long sought to understand what drives punishment of juvenile. While some researchers argue that age influences the punishment of juvenile offenders, others argue that more severe crimes receive harsher ...
Jonathon McPhetres, Jamie Hughes
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The Tension Between Combating Terrorism and Protecting the Right to a Fair Trial in Indonesia

Lentera Hukum, 2023
A consistent criticism of the Indonesian criminal justice system indicates its dysfunctional judicial system plagued by systemic corruption and government interference.
Milda Istiqomah, Armin Alimardani
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Conceptions and representations of the sentencing decision process

, 1997
This article attempts to reflect on the success of attempts by academic research to understand and explain the sentencing decision process. It identifies conventional themes in the conception and representation of that decision process and argues that ...
Tata, Cyrus
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A quick guide to sentencing [PDF]

, 2015
Introduction: outlines how Victorian courts (judges and magistrates) decide which sentence to impose on offenders. When sentencing offenders, a court decides what consequences offenders will face for what they have done.
Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council
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Sentencing as craftwork and the binary epistemologies of the discretionary decision process

, 2007
This article contends that it is time to take a critical look at a series of binary categories which have dominated the scholarly and reform epistemologies of the sentencing decision process.
Tata, Cyrus
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EKSISTENSI PIDANA MINIMUM KHUSUS SEBAGAI SARANA PENANGGULANGAN TINDAK PIDANA KORUPSI

Masalah-Masalah Hukum, 2015
The essence of the  specific minimal criminal sanctions in the Anti-Corruption Act, as a means to prevent disparity in sentencing and as a deterrent effect for the corrupt.
Antonius Sudirman
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The sentencing of offences involving domestic abuse in Scotland

, 2022
This review is intended to provide a coherent overview of the sentencing of offences involving domestic abuse in Scotland. This review follows a period of intense legal and policy change and occurs at the time when then Scottish Sentencing Council is ...
Gormley, Jay, Wheate, Rhonda, McPherson, Rachel   +2 more
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Communicating confidence: Suspended sentences as communicative punishment [PDF]

Pravni Zapisi
The article identifies a distinctive model of suspended sentences that exists in contemporary Serbia and Slovenia. By employing Antony Duff 's notion of 'communicative punishment', the article suggests that suspended sentences are a robust and ...
Plesnicar Mojca M., Tripkovic Milena
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A study of auxiliary factors for judges in sentencing dangerous driving offenses – the mediating role of favorable and unfavorable factors

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
This paper investigates the ancillary factors judges consider when sentencing dangerous driving offenses. These factors are divided into favorable (i.e., “Confess” [CF], and “Actively compensate and obtain forgiveness from victims” [AC]) and unfavorable ...
Chengjie Liu, Ziyu Miao, Ting Wang
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