Sentencing Serious Sex Offenders

How Judges Decide When Discretion Is Wide
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-3473-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 299 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griffin, Diarmuid

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Strafvollzugsrecht, Strafvollstreckung, Maßregelvollzug, Gnadenwesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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