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The Basic Principles Of Sentencing
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... The Basic Principles Of Sentencing This essay will outline the basic principles of sentencing; in relation to this it will also discuss the background behind sentencing, non-custodial and custodial sentences, case studies and statistics of crime and sentences. Sentencing is described as the punishment ordered by a court for a defendant convicted of a crime. The basic principles behind sentencing a person convicted of a crime are rehabilitation, deterrence, protection, retribution and reparation. Rehabilitation is a principle of sentencing that assumes that offenders can be "reformed" or rehabilitated and for that reason should not be sent to prison, or that any prison term should be shortened. Sentencing is a use of deterrence as it is hoped that potential offenders will be discouraged of committing crimes. Protection means by convicting offenders of crimes it is possible that the general public are kept safe from criminals. Retribution is a principle of sentencing that is
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