Innovation in sentencing

Professor Elena Marchetti2, Ms Anne Edwards1 1Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council, Brisbane, Australia, 2Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia Since the re-establishment of the Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council in late 2016, the Council has strived to design and deliver a range of professional...
  • August 22, 2018
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Dr Danielle Tyson1, Professor Rosemary Hunter2 1Deakin University,  Burwood, Australia, 2Queen Mary University of London, London, England In 2005 the Australian State of Victoria abolished the defence of provocation. Part of the impetus for the reforms was to challenge provocation’s...
  • August 22, 2018
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Mr Armin Alimardani1 1University Of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia In the contemporary scholarly neurolaw literature, neuroscientific evidence is frequently characterized as conceptually at odds with the core features of the criminal law. This makes it seem as if the...
  • August 22, 2018
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Jennifer Quaid1 1Civil Law Section, Faculty of Law, University Of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Sentencing has an outsized role in setting the tone of enforcement against organizational/corporate offenders because nearly all such cases are settled with a guilty plea. When Canada...
  • July 26, 2018
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