Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Table of statutes
- Table of cases
- 1 An introduction to English sentencing
- 2 Sentencing and the constitution
- 3 Sentencing aims, principles and policies
- 4 Elements of proportionality
- 5 Aggravation and mitigation
- 6 Persistence, prevention and prediction
- 7 Equality before the law
- 8 Multiple offenders
- 9 Custodial sentencing
- 10 Non-custodial sentencing
- 11 Procedural issues and ancillary orders
- 12 Special sentencing powers
- 13 Conclusions
- References
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Table of statutes
- Table of cases
- 1 An introduction to English sentencing
- 2 Sentencing and the constitution
- 3 Sentencing aims, principles and policies
- 4 Elements of proportionality
- 5 Aggravation and mitigation
- 6 Persistence, prevention and prediction
- 7 Equality before the law
- 8 Multiple offenders
- 9 Custodial sentencing
- 10 Non-custodial sentencing
- 11 Procedural issues and ancillary orders
- 12 Special sentencing powers
- 13 Conclusions
- References
- Index
Summary
In the five years since the third edition, the brisk pace of change in sentencing set in the 1990s has continued with vigour. Most significant is the Criminal Justice Act 2003. Over half of its 339 sections and 30 of its 38 schedules relate to sentencing. Not all of those provisions are yet in force – at the time of writing, it appears that the new sentence of custody plus and the raising of the magistrates' courts' sentencing limit from 6 to 12 months will not be brought in until autumn 2006. Several chapters have needed extensive rewriting in order to reflect the provisions of the 2003 Act. Attention has also been paid to other significant changes in sentencing – the continued rise in the prison population to over 75,000; the continued increase in reliance on the National Probation Service for risk management and rehabilitation in the community; the extension of social control through the anti-social behaviour order and the many other preventive orders and the concomitant blurring of boundaries, rights and responsibilities that this entails; the development of the guideline movement in sentencing, and the unexpected return of the Court of Appeal to the practice of laying down guidelines or ‘guidance’; and many other changes.
I ceased to gather material for this edition at the end of March 2005, but room has been found for a few subsequent developments.
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- Sentencing and Criminal Justice , pp. xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005