About the constitutionality of mandatory minimum sentences
| dc.contributor.advisor | van Zyl Smit, Dirk | |
| dc.contributor.author | Oppert, Anna | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-18T13:44:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-09-18T13:44:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1995 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2023-09-18T13:44:43Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | As difficult as the task of reaching a reliable verdict may be, the second half of a criminal court's procedure, that of imposing sentences on those who have been found guilty or who have themselves admitted their guilt raises even more fundamental questions. What are we trying to do, what is the object of this exercise? Traditionally there have been four approaches to the sentencing of an offender which correspond to the four "objects" or "purposes" of sentencing, namely retribution, rehabilitation, deterrence or incapacitation, i.e. the offender should be punished for the crime; the offender should be punished to be given the opportunity to return "onto the right track"; the offender (individual deterrence) or others (general deterrence) should be deterred from committing similar crimes in the future; and, finally, the offender should be incapacitated, i.e. be prevented from repeating crimes. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Oppert, A. (1995). <i>About the constitutionality of mandatory minimum sentences</i>. (). ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Public Law. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38741 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Oppert, Anna. <i>"About the constitutionality of mandatory minimum sentences."</i> ., ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Public Law, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38741 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Oppert, A. 1995. About the constitutionality of mandatory minimum sentences. . ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Public Law. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38741 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Master Thesis AU - Oppert, Anna AB - As difficult as the task of reaching a reliable verdict may be, the second half of a criminal court's procedure, that of imposing sentences on those who have been found guilty or who have themselves admitted their guilt raises even more fundamental questions. What are we trying to do, what is the object of this exercise? Traditionally there have been four approaches to the sentencing of an offender which correspond to the four "objects" or "purposes" of sentencing, namely retribution, rehabilitation, deterrence or incapacitation, i.e. the offender should be punished for the crime; the offender should be punished to be given the opportunity to return "onto the right track"; the offender (individual deterrence) or others (general deterrence) should be deterred from committing similar crimes in the future; and, finally, the offender should be incapacitated, i.e. be prevented from repeating crimes. DA - 1995 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - law LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 1995 T1 - About the constitutionality of mandatory minimum sentences TI - About the constitutionality of mandatory minimum sentences UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38741 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38741 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Oppert A. About the constitutionality of mandatory minimum sentences. []. ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Public Law, 1995 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38741 | en_ZA |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Public Law | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Law | |
| dc.subject | law | |
| dc.title | About the constitutionality of mandatory minimum sentences | |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | LLM |