Sentence examples for purpose of sentencing from inspiring English sources
Juliet Lyon, of the Prison Reform Trust, said restoring the principle of review of whole-life sentences would help restore balance to a penal system distorted by the 2003 Criminal Justice Act: "Rehabilitation is a purpose of sentencing alongside punishment.
"The special status of Mr Taylor as a head of state puts him in a different category of offenders for the purpose of sentencing".
This "special status" had put Taylor in a "different category of offenders for the purpose of sentencing," the judge said.
The decision fails to take into consideration that rehabilitation is one of the primary purposes of sentencing.
But non-lawyers will likely regard it as simple justice that Montgomery and others in his position benefit from the court's evolving understanding that "children are constitutionally different from adults for purposes of sentencing" -- because they are less mature and more impulsive and also because they are better candidates for rehabilitation.
For the purposes of sentencing, the prosecution accepted that the girl consented and that she had said she was 15.
According to the Sentencing Council's standard list of the five purposes of sentencing, "the reduction of crime (including its reduction by deterrence)" comes second after "punishment of offenders".
But some of his statements are admissible for purposes of sentencing, the prosecution contends, adding that Mr. Ghailani has since admitted that those statements were made voluntarily.
Step by step, this carefully guided analysis produces a sentence compatible with legislation and appropriate to the five purposes of sentencing: punishment, protection of the public, deterrence, reform and rehabilitation and reparation to the public.
That is why, in England and Wales, downloading indecent images is commonly treated as possession for the purposes of sentencing and possession attracts a lower sentence than creating or distributing such material.
One of the Commission's main tasks is to "provide certainty and fairness in meeting the purposes of sentencing by avoiding unwarranted disparity among offenders with similar characteristics convicted of similar criminal conduct".
