LAWS398 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Victim Impact Statement, Restorative Justice, Immunodeficiency
14 Jul 2020
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Reform directions: victim impact statements, restorative justice & reintegrative shaming, children, preventive detention, drug courts, artificial intelligence. No family visits management of boredom and social integration and reduces isolation. Ill-health can be a mitigating factor in regard to sentencing covid-19 and people who are immunocompromised. Punishment, it is said, has several competing aims and effects. These aims, and effects are typically represented as retribution, deterrence, incapacitation and rehabilitation. In recent times, restorative justice has been added to this list though this concept is said only to complement, rather than replace, conventional criminal processes and sentencing procedures. Simon bronitt and bernadette mcsherry, principles of criminal law (thomson reuters, Theories of punishment are moral claims as to what justifies the practice of punishment claims as to why, morally, it should or may be used. " the point of punishment. Retribution; a person has done a bad thing and they should suffer for it.
