Sentencing Serious Sex Offenders

How Judges Decide when Discretion Is Wide

Diarmuid Griffin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

172 Seiten

2025
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-3473-2 (ISBN)

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Addressing a lack of high-quality sentencing information in Ireland, this important book explores the factors that influence judges to impose a sentence of long-term imprisonment in sexual offence cases. The book is designed to be used in the classroom and the court, as well as providing a solid evidence base to inform policy-makers.

Addressing a lack of high-quality sentencing information in Ireland, this important book explores the factors that influence judges to impose a sentence of long-term imprisonment in sexual offence cases.

Judges have made it clear that sentences of 15 years to life imprisonment are to be reserved for offending that is ‘truly egregious’. Griffin, using over 100 serious sexual offence cases, examines what this means in practice. The book is designed to be used in the classroom and the court, as well as providing a solid evidence base to inform the public and policy discourse on sentencing.

Diarmuid Griffin is Lecturer in criminal law at the University of Galway.

1. The Apex of Seriousness

2. Getting to Guidance

3. Deconstructing Sentences

4. Sentencing Crimes Committed Against Adult Victims

5. Sentencing Crimes of Child Sexual Abuse

6. Factoring in Judges

7. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	10.04.2025
Zusatzinfo	10 Tables, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Besonderes Strafrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-5292-3473-5 / 1529234735
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-3473-2 / 9781529234732
Zustand	Neuware