Research Catalog

Title

Aggravation, mitigation, and mercy in English criminal justice / Nigel Walker.

Author

Walker, Nigel

Publication

London : Blackstone, 1999.

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Details

Description

xxvii, 270 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• Sentences (Criminal procedure) > Great Britain
• Extenuating circumstances > Great Britain
• Aggravating circumstances > Great Britain
• Punishment > Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-257) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. I. Justifying Penalties -- Ch. 1. Desert -- Ch. 2. Utility -- Ch. 3. Sentencing for What? -- Pt. II. Aggravation -- Ch. 4. Statutory and Miscellaneous Aggravation -- Ch. 5. Precautionary Detention -- Ch. 6. Non-custodial Precautions -- Pt. III. Mitigation -- Ch. 7. Statutory and Miscellaneous Pleas -- Ch. 8. Harm -- Ch. 9. Youth and Old Age -- Ch. 10. Mental Disorder -- Ch. 11. Revenge and Provocation -- Ch. 12. Women's Situations -- Ch. 13. Unfashionable Mitigations -- Pt. IV. Some Points of Principle -- Ch. 14. The Quiddity of Mercy -- Ch. 15. The Next Step -- App. A. Serious Offences -- App. B. Guideline Cases.

ISBN

1854319434

LCCN

^^^99237484^

OCLC

• 40798952
• SCSB-10238007

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library