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Should victims have a say in sentencing?
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Should victims have a say in sentencing? CRIME CONTROL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE CRM020C075S Should victims have a say in sentencing? When someone has committed a crime, it is only fair that they are punished for it. However, we are brought forward with the question of who should decide the sentence for the offender? The sentence is the test as to whether justice has been done, both to the victim and to the defendant. A sentence by any court involves doing harm to the defendant in some way: it might be as limited as the humiliation and stigma associated with a court appearance followed by an absolute discharge; it might involve financial penalties; it might be a partial reduction of personal liberty through working on a community punishment order; it might involve extreme restriction on liberty of movement and major interference with personal, social and economic relationships through an immediate custodial sentence. With regard to public perception, it...
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