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Equality Before the Law: Racial and Social Background Factors as Sources of Mitigation at Sentencing

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posted on 2023-05-22, 13:05 authored by Catherine WarnerCatherine Warner
Some sentencing factors are offence-specific, while others cut across all forms of offending. One of the most important - and contested - examples of the latter is the offender's social background. Are offenders who present for sentencing with a socially disadvantaged background - or who belong to a minority group which historically has been associated with high rates of imprisonment - entitled to some mitigation on this basis?

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Publication title

Mitigation and Aggravation at Sentencing

Editors

JV Roberts

Pagination

124-145

ISBN

978-0-521-19780-9

Department/School

Faculty of Law

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Place of publication

New York

Extent

14

Rights statement

Copyright 2011 Cambridge University Press

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Justice and the law not elsewhere classified

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