| Description |
xi, 240 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
4. SENTENCING -- Introduction -- The need for coherent policies -- The search for philosophies and policies -- (a) Community attitudes towards sentencing -- (b) The ebb and flow of penal thinking -- Judicial officers as sentencers -- (a) Preliminary -- (b) Openness and accountability -- (c) Training for sentencer -- (d) Criminology and the courts -- The sentencing process -- The sentencing smorgasbord and sentencing effectiveness -- What is to be done? -- 5. the need for a national inquiry -- Introduction -- The Australian context : pragmatism without principle -- The need for a proper appraisal |
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INTRODUCTION -- Principles and policies for Australian criminal justice -- (a) The need for principles and policies -- (b) The lack of principles and policies -- (c) The policy options -- Assessing the criminal justice process --The federal structure of Australian criminal justice -- 1. CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION - Introduction -- The strategic significance of criminal investigation -- The decade of inquiries -- The need for reform -- The need for principles -- (a) The lack of a theoretical base -- (b) The failure to get behind conventional rhetoric -- (c) Getting to the core of the debate -- (i) The right to silence -- (ii) Monitoring and opening-up criminal investigation -- Barriers to reform -- (a) The lack of an adequate blueprint for reform -- (b) The legacy of neglect -- (c) The polarized nature of the debate - Conclusion. -- 2. PRE-TRIAL DECISION MAKING -- Introduction -- Prosecutorial discretion and decision-making -- (a) Preliminary -- (b) The structure of prosecutorial decision-making -- (c) Analysing prosecutorial decision-making -- (i) Fairness -- (ii) Openness and accountability -- (iii) Efficiency -- Police as prosecutors -- Plea bargaining -- Pre-trial discovery -- 3. THE COURT HEARING -- Introduction -- Reducing the workload of the courts -- The higher courts -- (a) An initial perspective -- (b) The police and the jury trial -- The jury -- (a) Can the jury do its job? -- (b) Limiting the role of the jury -- The laws of evidence -- (a) The role of the judiciary and the legal profession -- (b) Confessions -- The judge -- Long trials -- The lower courts -- Legal aid -- Summary -- |
| Analysis |
Australia Criminal law Justice Administration |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Australia.
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Criminal justice, Administration of.
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Criminal procedure -- Australia.
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| Author |
Willis, John, 1937-
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| LC no. |
85127007 |
| ISBN |
0195544587 (paperback) |
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0195544595 |
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