Sentence examples for proportionate sentences from inspiring English sources

"Retaining these cases in the magistrates' courts will speed up justice for all court-users, especially victims, enabling magistrates to give more proportionate sentences at the right level.

"Our proposals will help ensure a consistent approach to sentencing, allowing fair and proportionate sentences across the board, with some of the most serious offenders facing tougher penalties.

"Unless Brazil decriminalises drugs and begins applying existing legislation that sanctions alternative and proportionate sentencing, these problems will continue unabated," says Muggah.

As the court of appeal tried to explain, "although the judge below fell into error, it does not affect what was in fact a just and proportionate sentence".

It was a "just and proportionate" sentence "taking account of considerations of harm and culpability together with aggravating factors and such mitigation as was available to the appellant".

In Tottenham, a father who fled his burning flat with his two children after it was attacked by rioters has called for proportionate sentencing and said prison for small-time looters "will not solve anything".

Lady Justice Hallett said the Appeal Court judges had to impose a "just and proportionate sentence".

But if actual detention matters for proportionate sentencing in the pre-trial context, it must matter as well for the post-sentence context, and this would make it effectively impossible to pursue both proportionate punishment and post-sentence detention.

The Sentencing Council said the guidelines have been designed to allow a "better assessment of these complex offences" to help ensure "consistent and proportionate sentencing".

This garden-variety understanding of the deterrence theory is subject to two criticisms concerning failure to prescribe proportionate sentencing and treating offenders as mere means which I briefly describe.

But it should mean prison and jail sentences proportionate to the harm and risk to the community of actual crimes, not the scatter-shot and "supersize me" approach that has dominated California's penal policies for the past generation.