TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harris,Lyndon
TI  - Achieving consistency in sentencing
SN  - 9780191949760
AV  - KD8406 
U1  - 345.420772 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Sentences (Criminal procedure)
KW  - England
KW  - Wales
KW  - Law
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law
KW  - thema
N1  - This edition also issued in print: 2022; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - The Sentencing Council of England and Wales has as its core aim to promote consistency in sentencing, with a developed system of appellate guidance at sentencing in addition to a narrative guidelines system which is now two decades old. As such, there is much to analyse and many lessons to be learned - for England and Wales and other jurisdictions. Consistency in sentencing is widely regarded to be an essential component of a fair sentencing system; but what does consistency mean exactly? In this book, the author maintains that consistency incorporates both substantive and procedural elements, focussing upon the proper application of principle. The notion of comparing 'like' cases is rejected as simplistic, impractical, and unprincipled. Lyndon Harris argues that a more principled approach reconciles the tension between consistency and individualised justice which has been suggested to exist
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192859266.001.0001
ER  -