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Hot Topics 28: Sentencing (September 2000)

Sentencing Terminology

Aims and Justifications for Punishment

The Criminal Justice System Determination Of Sentence - Aims Of Sentencing.

How is a Penalty Determined

Discretion - Factors In Determining A Sentence - Victim Impact Statements Reasons For The Sentence - Sentencing Discounts For Guilty Pleas - Sentencing Information System.

Types of Punishment

Custodial Penalties - Non-Custodial Penalties - Mentally Ill Offenders.

Mandatory Sentencing

Background- Crime Prevention - Fairness - Cost-Effectiveness - Consistency Retribution - Northern Territory - Western Australia - Responses To The WA NT Mandatory Sentencing Laws - The United States - New South Wales.

Further Reading and Contacts

A Select List Of Resources, Organisations And Internet Sites.

Tips for Keeping Up-to-Date with Legislation, Cases and Issues

This is the twenty-eighth in the series Hot Topics: burning legal issues in plain language which highlights contemporary legal issues in NSW, published by the Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC). Hot Topic No. 28 Sentencing - update has been compi led by the Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC).

AUTHOR:/ Honor Figgis

EDITOR: Cathy Hammer

DESIGN: Janos Kecskemeti, Bodoni Studio

PHOTOS: National Children’s Youth Law Centre Rights Now, June 2000; Peter Mackezie for Legal Aid Commission of NSW; David Gleeson, Media Liaison Officer, Department of Juvenile Justice; Mike Combe, Public Affairs Branch, NSW Police Service; State Library of NSW (The State Library of NSW offers photographic, copying and picture research service based on its unique collections. Contact the Image Library, http://www.slnsw.gov.au/imagelibrary, tel: 02 9273 1482, fax: 02 9273 1256, email: imagelibrary@ilanet.slnsw.gov.au) The publisher would like to thank Mark Findlay, Associate Professor, Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney for reading and commenting on the material.

State Library of NSW
Cataloguing-in-publication data

Sentencing - update: current debates in the law/Legal information Access Centre.

Hot Topics, ISSN 1322-4301; No.28
1. Sentences (Criminal procedure) - New South Wales
2. Mandatory sentences - Northern Territory
3. Mandatory sentences - Western Australia
I. Legal Information Access Centre.
II. Figgis, Honor.
III. Hammer, Cathy

(Series: Hot topics (Sydney, N.S.W.); no.28) 345.9440772