Issues of consent, the age of the defendant and his belief as to the age of the victim could be taken into account at the point of sentence, and indeed in this case the defendant had been given a conditional discharge (the second most lenient sentence available).
In this analysis, the stress strain relationship is nonlinear and each point of sentences having the second derivative of ductility is also considered in the strain calculation.
We need to reform our criminal justice system, from top to bottom, from point of apprehension to length of sentencing to prison administration to re-entry into society.
And few such folk ever reach the point of being sentenced to prison: once in possession of an expensive lawyer, Brazilian court cases progress slowly and allow multiple appeals, meaning those with means rarely reach the end of the road.
"This is entirely possible but it would, I think, also be to miss the wider point of this sentencing change, because for those that are actually embarking on a journey that embraces the knife culture, the eventual destination of this journey may be serious injury to someone else or even to the carrier of the knife, and frankly it can lead to the death of someone.
What is the point of this sentence?
Yesterday, the judge said the "starting point" of his sentence was 18 months.
The point of the sentence was to make Mr. Turner pay rather than to punish him, the court said.
Also, she said she didn't like the word punishment, as she strongly believed rehabilitation to be the appropriate point of all sentences, especially incarceration.
