Humanising Punishment? Mitigation and “Case-Cleansing” Prior to Sentencing
The purpose of this article is to stimulate new thinking about the role of the humanisation of the person to be sentenced. By rendering the person’s offending more comprehensible, humanisation is assumed to obstruct harsh penal treatment and mechanical case-disposal. Distinctively, however...
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| Language: | English |
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Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Oñati Socio-Legal Series |
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| Online Access: | http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/1074 |