NCJ Number
143473
Editor(s)
I Potas
Date Published
1987
Length
560 pages
Annotation
This collection of essays, articles, and papers was compiled following a seminar on sentencing that was held at the Australian Institute of Criminology in 1986 to identify key problem areas in Australian sentencing policies and sentencing reform.
Abstract
Seminar participants included judges and magistrates, legal practitioners, academics, law reformers, police, probation and parole officers, and prison administrators. The seminar began with a review of sentencing policies and problems. Participants then explored discretion in sentencing, the prosecutor's role in the sentencing process, and the judicial role in sentencing. Other presentations focused on the philosophy and practice of the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal, sentencing in magistrate courts, judicial models for sentencing guidelines, sentencing structures and sanction hierarchies, deinstitutionalization, and probation and parole. Finally, seminar topics focused on preconditions for sentencing and penal reform, the victim's role in the sentencing process, aboriginal offenders, and limits of sentencing reform. References and notes