LAWS 4308- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 34 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Chapter 4- judicial discretion and the methodology of sentencing. 9 chapter 5- substantive principles of sentencing 14 chapter 6- rules of sentencing 16 chapter 7- aggravating and mitigating factors 19. Book- sentencing and penal policy in canada 19. An introduction to punishment: philosophy and objectives 20. Chapter 3- iii -aggravating and mitigating factors 21. Intr oduction: different forms of punishment have historical roots linking them to the cultural and political environments from which they have derived. The scope of criminal law: all organized communities need a normative structure which includes a set of rules intended to protect the things considered most valuable to the community and its survival. These rules sets have been accompanied by some mechanism of enforcement usually know as penal code or criminal codes: modern codes have two characteristics, they contain descriptions of offences and statements of prescribed punishment.
