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Critically evaluate the aims and consequences of sentencing and show how the laws regarding sentencing currently stand in England and Wales.
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Criminal Justice: Assignment 1 In this assignment I intend to critically evaluate the aims and consequences of sentencing and show how the laws regarding sentencing currently stand in England and Wales. I will show how sentencing an offender works, and how judges come to their decisions. I also intend to show what the aims of sentencing set out to achieve. Sentencing is a particularly important aspect in the Criminal Justice System in operation within England and Wales. It must be determined, to define what sentencing does, what it can do what it could achieve and whether or not it endorses the aims it is given. At present, there is not one specific aim of the Criminal Justice System. According to the current Home Office Statement which has been released, the aims of the Criminal Justice System is "to build a safe, just and tolerant society, in which rights and responsibilities of individuals,...
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