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Mar 16, 2015 · Remorse is highly salient in public discussions of crime and punishment and is clearly influential in judicial decision-making. The lack of explicit justification for this salience and influence in the criminal justice context is striking.
- Remorse, Penal Theory and Sentencing
Are there some offence or offender characteristics that...
- Remorse, Penal Theory and Sentencing
This chapter analyses the guidance relating to remorse in the English sentencing guidelines. We also examine the effect of remorse on sentencing practices, drawing upon recent findings from the Sentencing Council’s Crown Court Sentencing Survey (CCSS).
This essay reviews the role that remorse does and ought to play in criminal justice. Evidence of remorse appears to influence decision-making in a number of stages of the criminal process.
Are there some offence or offender characteristics that preclude remorse-based mitigation? Remorse is recognised as a legitimate mitigating factor in many sentencing regimes around the world, with powerful effects on sentence severity.
Oct 23, 2015 · A defendant’s failure to show remorse is one of the most powerful factors in criminal sentencing, including capital sentencing. Yet there is currently no evidence that remorse can be accurately...
- Susan A. Bandes
Mar 1, 2014 · We briefly summarize the range of their responses regarding the legal relevance of remorse in criminal justice, the effect of the type of offense and stage in the criminal justice process on the role it plays in decisions, and its assessment.
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Oct 22, 2024 · Remorse is a complex emotion involving thoughts, feelings, and desires. This chapter focuses on the cognitive dimension of remorse—remorseful thoughts—and explores in particular the problem of remorseful criminal offenders whose insight into their offending is flawed or problematic in some way.
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