Public preferences for sentencing purposes: What difference does offender age, criminal history and offence type make?

Preferences of 800 randomly selected Australians for retributive and utilitarian sentencing purposes were examined in response to brief crime scenarios where offender age, offence type and offender history were systematically varied. Respondents selected rehabilitation as the most important purpose...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Spiranovic, C., Roberts, Lynne, Indermaur, D., Warner, K., Gelb, K., Mackenzie, G.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Sage 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19843