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Exploring Sentencing Practice in England and Wales

  • Julian V. Roberts
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Empirical Sentencing Research: Options and Opportunities
    Julian V. Roberts, Mike Hough
    Pages 1-17
  3. Using Court Records for Sentencing Research: Pitfalls and Possibilities
    Mandeep Dhami, Ian Belton
    Pages 18-34
  4. Sentencing Practices and Trends, 1999–2013
    Julian V. Roberts, Keir Irwin-Rogers
    Pages 35-60
  5. Exploring Public Knowledge of Sentencing Practices
    Martina Feilzer
    Pages 61-75
  6. Defining and Measuring Consistency in Sentencing
    Jose Pina-Sánchez
    Pages 76-92
  7. Sentencing Women: An Analysis of Recent Trends
    Carol Hedderman, Rebecca Barnes
    Pages 93-117
  8. Women and Sentencing: Challenges and Choices
    Loraine Gelsthorpe, Gillian Sharpe
    Pages 118-136
  9. Sentencing and Dependents: Motherhood as Mitigation
    Shona Minson
    Pages 137-153
  10. Paying for the Past: The Role of Previous Convictions at Sentencing in the Crown Court
    Julian V. Roberts, Jose Pina Sanchez
    Pages 154-172
  11. Penitence and Persistence: How Should Sentencing Factors Interact?
    Hannah Maslen
    Pages 173-193
  12. Exploring the Impact of Sentencing Factors on Sentencing Domestic Burglary
    Keir Irwin-Rogers, Thomas W. Perry
    Pages 194-220
  13. More Than One Crime: Sentencing the Multiple Conviction Offender
    Natalia Vibla
    Pages 221-234
  14. Sentencing for Murder: Drawing Lessons from Research
    Barry Mitchell, Julian V. Roberts
    Pages 235-250
  15. Sentencing Young Offenders
    Max Lowenstein
    Pages 251-262
  16. Back Matter
    Pages 263-268
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About this book

Introduction

This volume explores the theory and practice of sentencing in England and Wales, exploring issues such as the role of previous convictions, offender remorse and sentencing female offenders, as well as drawing upon a new and unique source of data from the Crown courts.

Keywords

Sentencing punishment legal punishment law England Wales Common Core Standards crime empirical research research statistics women

Editors and affiliations

  • Julian V. Roberts
    • 1
  1. 1.University of OxfordUK

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