Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Punishing, more or less: exploring aggravation and mitigation at sentencing
Chapter 2. Re-evaluating the justifications for aggravation and mitigation at sentencing
Chapter 3. The search for principles of mitigation: integrating cultural demands
Chapter 4. Personal mitigation and assumptions about offending and desistance
Chapter 5. Intoxication as a sentencing factor: mitigation or aggravation?
Chapter 6. Beyond the partial excuse: Australasian approaches to provocation as a sentencing factor
Chapter 7. Equality before the law: racial and social background factors as sources of mitigation at sentencing
Chapter 8. Personal mitigation: an empirical analysis in England and Wales
Chapter 9. Exploring public attitudes to sentencing factors in England and Wales
Chapter 10. The pernicious impact of perceived public opinion on sentencing: findings from an empirical study of the public’s approach to personal mitigation
Chapter 11. Addressing problematic sentencing factors in the development of guidelines
Chapter 12. Proof of aggravating and mitigating facts at sentencing
Chapter 13. Mitigation in federal sentencing in the United States
Chapter 14. The discretionary effect of mitigating and aggravating factors: A South African case study
Index