Title Sentencing pathways for offenders in Victoria : clinical influences and considerations / Meera Aurora

Published [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2003

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Description vii, 151 leaves ; 30 cm Summary This portfolio aims to review aspects of the sentencing of violent offenders under Victoria's criminal justice system. Focuses on a critique of current legislation, the way the rights of special needs offenders are acknowledged and enshrined in law, how these provisions are expressed in practice, and the clinical factors that contribute to, and influence, the dispositions individuals receive Notes Submitted to the School of Psychology of the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University Thesis (D.Psychology (Forensic))--Deakin University, Victoria, 2003 Bibliography Bibliography: leaves 142-151 Notes This portfolio is supported by the thesis "Violent offending : the efficacy of a unitary and transtheoretical intervention" Subject Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- Australia -- Victoria. Prison sentences -- Australia -- Victoria. Mentally ill prisoners. Correctional psychology. Genre/Form Academic theses. Author Deakin University. Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences Deakin University. School of Psychology

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