Aggravation, mitigation, and mercy in English criminal justice
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.
Aggravating circumstancesExtenuating circumstancesPunishmentSentences (Criminal procedure)Circonstances aggravantesStraftoemetingStrafrechtelijke aansprakelijkheidPenologieStrafprocesrechtSentences (Procédure pénale)Circonstances atténuantesPeines