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Should life mean life? Discuss and analyse the status of life sentencing under the UK law. Before we consider an appropriate definition for a 'life' sentence, it is useful to consider the context within which serious offenders are sentenced in the UK today. The Judiciary, as it stands, determines the application or otherwise of life sentencing. Although there has been a trend in recent years for politicians to become involved in the setting of tariffs, it is still fundamentally a matter for individual judges to determine how long an offender should stay in prison depending on the particular merits of a case. Life sentencing - like, indeed sentencing of any kind - can present judges with a frustrating and sometimes near-impossible task. They must juggle several often-conflicting sentencing aims in order to meet their goal. As well as considering the usual retributive and rehabilitative elements of a sentence, members of...

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