Aims: In February 2012, new sentencing guidelines for drug offences became effective in all courts in England and Wales. An explicit aim was to reduce the length of sentences for drug "mules" and so make them more proportionate. Methods: This article examines their early impact drawing on ...
Principled sentencing for drug supply offences: Revised methamphetamine sentencing guidelines in New Zealand Methamphetamine was reclassified as a Class A drug in New Zealand in 2003. This meant harsher sentences for people convicted of its manufacture, importation or supply. Despite this, the number ...
Sentencing Guidelines and a Scottish Sentencing Council: Consultation and Proposals Part 被引量: 1发表: 2008年 Must Like Cases Be Treated Alike? The sentencing guidelines are one example of such a reform, as are efforts to reduce disparities in jury determinations of liability and damages. The ....
A jury may also exercise the sentencing guidelines are usually imposed by the judge in most cases, but sentencing or it can be mandated by a statue; such as, mandatory prison sentence for certain crimes. Penal Code Ann. These offences include first and second-degree murder, a series of ...
摘要: By EMILY BAZELON magine that you could stop a crime before it happened. Not by zapping a murderer seconds before he bloodied his victim, like the future cop played by Tom Cruise in''Minority Report,''but by sitting calmly on the bench in judge's robes and perusing a 被引量: ...
First, it will be much easier for advisers to predict the likely sentence of any given offender according to his or her role and the quantity of drugs involved. Secondly, the guideline provides a more structured and systematic approach to sentencing than that which existed under the previous ...
Lai, G. (2012). Drugs, Crime and Punishment-Proportionality of Sentencing for Drug Offences. London: Independent Drug Policy ConsortiumLai G (2012) Drugs, crime and punishment: Proportionality of sentencing for drug offences. London: International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC)....
The federal sentencing guidelines required that his sentence be based not just on the total quantity of drugs he carried internally at the time he was ... AJ Izenman - Springer New York 被引量: 19发表: 2000年 Checking the Balance: Prosecutorial Power in an Age of Expansion Legislation I....
are sorry or otherwise show remorse, the guidelines suggest.Terms can be cut for a first offence, or if defendants can prove they were 'vulnerable' and were exploited by other dealers.Further reductions are available for those addicted to the drugs they are selling or 'lacking in maturity'. ...
Comments on the arrest of Edward Clary right before his 18th birthday, and reports that although he had never attempted to deal drugs before he was convicted and sentenced under federal guidelines that punish crack offenses 100 times more severely than offenses involving powder cocaine. Clary's leg...