Abstract
This article makes an ethical, legal and practical case for a different approach to sentencing mentally disordered offenders that gives greater weight to the offender's human rights than the Court of Appeal in Vowles and Edwards and the Sentencing Council's recent guidelines.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 98-112 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Criminal Law Review |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Bibliographical note
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- sentencing
- human rights
- criminal law
- criminal justice
- Criminology
- Mental Health Act
- Mental health