Sentencing Councils and Victims

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9196378
AutoresIan Edwards (0000-0003-4207-2056, UEA Law School University of East Anglia, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen75
Número3
Páginas324-346
Fecha de publicación2012-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaModern Law Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0026-7961 • E-ISSN: 1468-2230
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-2230.2012.00903.x
OpenAlexW1747744666
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas28

This article explores the place victims have, and should have, in bodies that formulate sentencing guidelines, with particular reference to sentencing guidelines in E ngland and W ales and the S entencing C ouncil's obligation under the C oroners and J ustice A ct 2009 to have regard to ‘the impact of sentencing decisions on victims of offences’ when devising guidelines. The issues are situated in political and penological contexts; the place of victims in sentencing commissions or advisory bodies in the USA , E ngland and A ustralia is analysed and the meaning and significance of the S entencing C ouncil's obligation towards victims is considered, relating the specific obligation to broader issues concerning the place of victims within bodies that formulate sentencing guidelines. While incorporating victims within sentencing commissions might undermine commissions’ aims, it can play an important role in helping to boost public confidence in criminal justice, a touchstone for all western governments’ criminal justice policies

Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Meaning (existential) · Obligation · Political science · Politics · Sentencing guidelines · Situated · Sociology · Child Abuse and Trauma · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending