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Equality Before the Law: Racial and Social Background Factors as Sources of Mitigation at Sentencing
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 SentencingEditors
JV RobertsPagination
124-145ISBN
978-0-521-19780-9Department/School
Faculty of LawPublisher
Cambridge University PressPlace of publication
New YorkExtent
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